Vulnerabilities > CVE-2005-2341 - Buffer Errors vulnerability in RIM products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry Attachment Service allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) via an e-mail attachment with a crafted TIFF file.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 2 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Overflow Buffers Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
- Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
- Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
- MIME Conversion An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.
Nessus
| NASL family | Gain a shell remotely |
| NASL id | BLACKBERRY_ES_WORD_ATTACHMENT_OVERFLOW.NASL |
| description | The version of BlackBerry Enterprise Server on the remote host reportedly contains flaws in its handling of Word and TIFF document attachments that may result in buffer overflows when a user opens a malformed file on a BlackBerry device. A remote attacker may be able to exploit this issue to execute code on the affected host subject to the privileges under which the application runs, generally |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 20950 |
| published | 2006-02-20 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/20950 |
| title | BlackBerry Enterprise Server Attachment Handling Buffer Overflows |
| code | |