nokia calendar memory errors

From: <distoage(at)altern.org>
Date: Tue May 06 2003 - 14:21:25 EDT

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I have sent this to the security mail of nokia without success and to the normal support contact with no response.

So I forward this I think could be interesting. I just see other strange memory behaviour like the one described : a calendar entry having the ending characters of another entry. And when I change one entry this seems to change and corrupting the other and vice versa.

I don't tested these problems on other nokia models.

• Original Message -----
  > A found something strange on my nokia 5210 and ask myself if it isn't a
  bug
  > in the software.
  >
  > I add a new entry on my calendar. But the last characters of my new entry
  > are changed with the square "" char. If I add a new entry with fewer
  > characters the entry is ok. Than I add another
  > entry
  > on a different date. My new entry isn't
  > correct and show only 3 squares "". Than I look in my previews entry
  and
  > the last characters that was correct are now
  > not correct and show squares "". I think I have used my full memory for
  > calendar entry and it seems to act like a
  > "bufferoverflow" ?
  >
  > I ask myself if security problems can rise if somebody send a new
  calendar
  > entry via sms to somebody else this will
  > "delete" some characters of other entries in the phone ?...
  > So we can send a lot of new calendar entries to somebody
  to "bufferoverflow"
  > is memory or delete personal informations ???
  >
  > Could you give me feedback about this ?
  >
  > Thank you.
  >
  >
  >
  

Received on Tue May 6 19:09:09 2003