BlackBerry maker, Research In Motion (RIM), has taken a more pro-active approach to maintaining their BlackBerry servers. Rather than waiting for vulnerabilities to rear their ugly head and take down enterprise users’ entire BlackBerry email-backends, RIM has announced that they’ve identified and patched a vulnerability in their BlackBerry Enterprise Server related to PDF-parsing.
The security hole would have given hackers and malcontents access to the Enterprise Server by tricking 
BlackBerry email users in to opening a malicious PDF email attachment, potentially leading to a crash of the entire server.
BlackBerry Enterprise Server versions 4.1.3 through 4.1.5 were the only versions affected by the PDF security hole, according to RIM. Enterprise Server version 4.1.6 for Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino was apparently no affected by the flaw. The security patches have been issued to BlackBerry Enterprise server customers.
“There were no customer reports of any actual problems relating to this vulnerability, and RIM has since provided software updates that resolve the issue,” RIM said in a statement.
Well done, RIM. Now, on to ironing out the bugs and launching that BlackBerry Thunder, eh?
[Via: CellularNews]