CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-0647
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-02-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• microsoft windows live messenger 2009
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33985 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501043/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33825 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0466 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48810 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33985 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501043/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33825 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0466 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48810 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com