CVE-2009-0647 (GCVE-0-2009-0647)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-02-19 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 04:40
VLAI
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/33985 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0466 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33825 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501043/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Date Public
2009-02-18 00:00
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