| Title: |
Vulnerability in Nimbuzz for Android |
| Time: |
02 Dec 2011 |
| Author: |
Daoyuan Wu*, Xiapu Luo* and Rocky K. C. Chang |
|
Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong |
|
* authors with equal contributions |
| CVE ID: |
CVE-2011-4702 |
| Category: |
To Be Confirmed
|
| Related Vendor: |
Nimbuzz B.V. |
| Archive Time: |
December 2, 2011 HKT |
| Package Name: |
com.nimbuzz |
| Full Name: |
Nimbuzz |
| Affected Version: |
2.0.8 and 2.0.10 (the latest version in 02 Dec 2011) |
| Package Installs: |
1,000,000 - 5,000,000 |
| Market Link: |
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nimbuzz |
| Status: |
Breif impact description now releases to public.
|
| Breif Description: |
Allow a malicious application to access and manipulate the user’s contacts. |
| Contact Time: |
Dec 16, 2011 at 3:05 PM HKT
|
| Confirm Time: |
No reply, although we have notified them. |
| Patched Time: |
Unknown |
| Patched Status: |
Unknown |
Although we only mention one or several affected version in our report, other versions may also be vulnerable, e.g. lower version, pad version or paid version.