[NEWS] LG U8120 Mobile Phone DoS

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  LG U8120 Mobile Phone DoS
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SUMMARY

A vulnerability in  
<http://www.lge.com/catalog/prodmodeldetail?actType=search&page=1&modelCategoryId=CTG1000540&categoryId=CTG1000538&parentId=CTG1000441&modelPrefix=400000&globalCode=U8120&globalSuffix=000000&unit=NOTHING&model=NOTHING> LG U8120 Mobile Phone allows an attacker to crash the phone by sending it a specially crafted MIDI file. Playing the malicious MIDI will cause the LG U8120 mobile phone to crash.

DETAILS

Vulnerable Systems:
 * LG U8120 (other LG phones maybe vulnerable)

Exploit:
A MIDI file that triggers the vulnerability can be found at:  
<http://www.lucaercoli.it/LG/lgfreeze.mid> 
http://www.lucaercoli.it/LG/lgfreeze.mid

In order to exploit the vulnerability, an attacker must send the midi file 
via mms to vulnerable device.

To perform the attack from LG U8120:
(WARNING: DOING THIS OPERATIONS YOU CAN BLOCK YOUR DEVICE! TO RESET IT USE 
THIS CODE:  277634#*#)
1) Save a mms draft with a dummy midi file
2) Connect mobile phone to PC and overwrite the dummy file with 
'lgfreeze.mid'.
3) Send the mms draft.


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The information has been provided by  <mailto:[email protected]> Luca 
Ercoli.
The original article can be found at:  
<http://www.lucaercoli.it/advs/LGU8120.txt> 
http://www.lucaercoli.it/advs/LGU8120.txt



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