CVE-2007-5493 (GCVE-0-2007-5493)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-10-18 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:31
VLAI
Summary
The SMS handler for Windows Mobile 2005 Pocket PC Phone edition allows attackers to hide the sender field of an SMS message via a malformed WAP PUSH message that causes the PDU to be incorrectly decoded.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://osvdb.org/45517 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26091 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/… x_refsource_MISC
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018832 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482446/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Date Public
2007-10-17 00:00
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