Vulnerability Development: Re: Nokia 7110 Wap Browser Hole

[courcoul () CAMPUS QRO ITESM MX (Juan M. Courcoul)]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Bluefish wrote:

> To begin with, I don't follow the "off-topic" comments, why would this be
> off-topic? Or the previous post about Nokia?
>
> > > To continue being of topic, most wap phones hangs when being portscanned,
> > > including most nokia 7110's. But since you need the ad of the phone when
> > > it's connected to the net, and this can be pretty tricky to get most people
> > > should not be to worried.
> It's hardly acceptable that these products contains numerous security bugs
> (which I'm starting to suspect, this bug should have been uncovered during
> normal testing procedures!)
Related to the ability of Nokia to address these problems, does anyone
know if Nokia's digital phones are flash-upgradeable ? Or will everyone
have to buy a new unit or send theirs off to get some component replaced
at the factory or service center ?

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