Description
The Find feature in Palm OS Treo smart phones operates despite the system password lock, which allows attackers with physical access to obtain sensitive information (memory contents) by doing (1) text searches or (2) paste operations after pressing certain keyboard shortcut keys.
References
- 20070222 Re: SYMSA-2007-002: Palm OS Treo Find Feature System Password Bypass mailing-list
- http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/research/SYMSA-2007-002.txt
- 20070222 SYMSA-2007-002-1: Palm OS Treo Find Feature System Password Bypass mailing-list
- 33724 vdb-entry
- 20070222 RE: SYMSA-2007-002: Palm OS Treo Find Feature System Password Bypass mailing-list
- 20070222 Re: Re: SYMSA-2007-002: Palm OS Treo Find Feature System Password Bypass mailing-list
- palmos-findfeature-security-bypass(32502) vdb-entry
- http://discussion.treocentral.com/showthread.php?p=1199445&posted=1#post1199445
- 22468 vdb-entry
- 20070216 Re: SYMSA-2007-002: Palm OS Treo Find Feature System Password Bypass mailing-list
- 2260 third-party-advisory
- 20070213 SYMSA-2007-002: Palm OS Treo Find Feature System Password Bypass mailing-list