ID: IRCNE2011101300
Date: 2011-10-30
According to "computerworld", It's been more than two months since Research In Motion (RIM) reported a BlackBerry smartphone or BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) security flaw, but the Canadian company has announced a handful of recently discovered vulnerabilities in its BlackBerry 6 handheld OS and BES for IBM Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange.
First, RIM reports that three newly discovered vulnerabilities in the BlackBerry 6 Webkit browser could allow a hacker to access and/or modify data stored within a BlackBerry 6 smartphone's internal storage.
The flaws affect a number of BlackBerry smartphones running the BlackBerry 6 OS, including the Bold 9650, Bold 9700, Bold 9780, Curve 9300, Pearl 9100, Style 9670, and Torch 9800 handhelds.
RIM recommends updating your BlackBerry 6 smartphone's OS to v6.0.0.522 for the Bold 9650, Curve 9330 smartphone, and Style 9670 smartphones; and to v6.0.0.566 for the remaining affected devices.
Secondly, RIM reports a new BES flaw that could affect organisations that employ Microsoft's Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 R2 and/or the Microsoft Lync Server 2010 BlackBerry IM Client with certain versions of RIM's BES for Lotus Notes and BES for Microsoft Exchange.
To address the issue, RIM released new security updates for BES in the form of a BES 5.0.3.
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