May 5, 2004
Security flaw (could) threaten SMS of Siemens S55 phones
The security company, SecurityFocus has reported a flaw in the software of the Siemens S55 phone that could enable messages to be sent from a handset without the owners knowledge, reports Cellular News.
"Reportedly the Siemens S55 is affected by an SMS confirmation message bypass vulnerability. This issue is due to a race condition error that allows a malicious programmer to send SMS messages from unsuspecting cellular telephone user's telephones while obscuring the confirmation request.
This issue may allow a malicious programmer to develop an application that can send SMS messages without the cellular telephone user's knowledge.
No fix has been issued for this problem, and there have not been any reports of anyone successfully exploiting this security bug".
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