Security experts have discovered that Ubuntu “Lucid Lynx” 10:04 is able to see and change the personal information of iPhone handsets, despite the protection of PIN codes. The tests involved the upgraded 3G model and others with various versions of Apple‘s operating system.

According to the site ZDNet, Marienfeldt Bernd Herbeck and Jim discovered a vulnerability in the iPhone that allows users to distribution Lucid Lynx 10:04 Ubuntu read and write access to data that theoretically should be protected without any PIN code request.

In his blog, explains that this failure Marienfeldt sets out in simple music, photos, videos, voice recordings, gaming content, navigation data Google and other personal information.

Menaing: this incredible flaw allows anyone with basic knowledge of Linux can copy data from an iPhone without the consent of its owner, provided that the person interested in the particulars have time to plug the player to the computer via a USB cable.

However, from Ubuntu (and other Linux distributions), these rules are simply ignored and any user can view the protected data.

On the vulnerability of the iPhone, Marienfeldt also warns that access for writing data to lead to a buffer overflow, if used by a bad guy.

Via: ZDNet.