bugtraq - Re: Nokia 3410 cell phones software flaw

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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 19:26:34 +0100 (CET)
From: Erwann Abalea <erwann.abalea@...tplus.com>
To: David Arranz <keyser@....lonestar.org>
Cc: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Nokia 3410 cell phones software flaw


On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, David Arranz wrote:

> Product:	Nokia 3410 cell phones
> Version:	Cell phone: Nokia 3410
> 		Software: 40.26
> Bug:		Software flaw in calls recognizing
> Impact:		Phone can report a wrong name from the
> 		'phone book' when receiving a call.
> Date:		march 03, 2004
> Author:		David Arranz Oveja
> 		Email: i1655087 (at) petra (dot) euitio (dot) uniovi (dot)es
> 		keyser (at) sdf (dot) lonestar (dot) org

[...]

> and we receive a call from 6?A BCD EFG , and the '?' is any digit
> different of '4' the phone will display: "David".

You should read your phone documentation, as this behaviour is clearly
indicated. Nokia takes the last 7 digits to recognize the number. If it
didn't, then it couldn't recognize that 6000000000 and +346000000000
(national and international notations) are the same number.

Solution: RTFM.

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