CVE-2009-0647

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Microsoft
Status
Windows Live Messenger
Vendor
CVE Published:
19 February 2009

Summary

msnmsgr.exe in Windows Live Messenger (WLM) 2009 build 14.0.8064.206, and other 14.0.8064.x builds, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a modified header in a packet, as possibly demonstrated by a UTF-8.0 value of the charset field in the Content-Type header line. NOTE: this has been reported as a format string vulnerability by some sources, but the provenance of that information is unknown.

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/33985
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0466
vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48810
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EPSS Score

4% chance of being exploited in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre Database
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