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Re: 2 vulnerabilities combine to auto execute received files in Nokia series 60 OS
From: Anders Langworthy <hades () psilanthropy org>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:17:55 -0600
Paul Kurczaba wrote:
Wouldn't the phone try to open the jpg file as a picture, and not execute it. Just like on desktop PCs: if you rename a .exe (application/program) to a jpg (picture file), and try to open the file, your image program will open the file, thinking it is a image file. The application code will not be executed.
Ideally, yes. But as demonstrated by the Microsoft GDI exploit, just because a file is not executed proper doesn't necessarily mean it's safe from problems in the underlying application.
I'd still say that this isn't really a problem directly (after all, it's considered "safe" to view a webpage with images that are loaded without prompting), but the fact that attachments are automagically loaded does provide a spectacular way to automatically infect a large amount of phones if somebody were to come up with a way to payload an attachment.
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