CVE-2008-4295: Microsoft Windows Mobile

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 30.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 on HTC Wiza 200 and HTC MDA 8125 devices does not properly handle the first attempt to establish a Bluetooth connection to a peer with a long name, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reboot) by configuring a Bluetooth device with a long hci name and (1) connecting directly to the Windows Mobile system or (2) waiting for the Windows Mobile system to scan for nearby devices.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows Mobile: version 6.0 only

Published 2008-09-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.