Trojan.PSPBrick

Trojan.PSPBrick is a Trojan horse that deletes critical system files on a Playstation Portable device, preventing the device from restarting correctly. It does this by exploiting the Sony PSP Photo Viewer TIFF Image Handling Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (as described in Bugtraq ID 14938).

Protection

• Initial Rapid Release version October 7, 2005
• Latest Rapid Release version February 13, 2008 revision 035
• Initial Daily Certified version October 7, 2005
• Latest Daily Certified version February 5, 2008 revision 036
• Initial Weekly Certified release date October 7, 2005

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Threat Assessment

Wild

• Wild Level: Low
• Number of Infections: 0 - 49
• Number of Sites: 0 - 2
• Geographical Distribution: Low
• Threat Containment: Easy
• Removal: Difficult

Damage

• Damage Level: High

Distribution

• Distribution Level: Low