RE: Siemens *35 and 45 series phones SMS Danial of Service

From: Willis Johnson (willisjat_private)
Date: Mon Mar 03 2003 - 15:28:57 PST

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    What happens if the string is sent repeatedly while the phone is turned
    on but is unattended or receives text messages silently? Is the battery
    drained as predicted? 
    
    Willis
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Jan Niehusmann [mailto:janat_private] 
    Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 2:46 PM
    To: subj subj
    Subject: Re: Siemens *35 and 45 series phones SMS Danial of Service
    
    
    On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 01:06:43AM -0000, subj subj wrote:
    >  To vulnerability are subject: All versions siemens *35 and *45.
    [...]
    >  languages from the phone language selection menu, will  completely 
    > disable *35 series phones and result  in a 2 minute read delay on *45 
    > series phones. Note that
    
    Please note that this vulnerability isn't as serious as you describe it.
    At least on my S45, I am able to interrupt this 2 minute delay at any
    time by pressing the 'hang up' key (but I have to press it for about
    half a second instead of just hitting it), the message can be read by
    using 'edit message' instead of 'read message', and it can be deleted
    without problems.
    
    So while this obviously is a bug, it can hardly be called a DoS.
    
    Jan
    



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