CVE-2002-1831

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Microsoft MSN Messenger Service 1.0 through 4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invite request that contains hex-encoded spaces (%20) in the Invitation-Cookie field.

Microsoft MSN Messenger Service 1.0 through 4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invite request that contains hex-encoded spaces (%20) in the Invitation-Cookie field.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Microsoft msn_messenger_service

First reported 22 years ago

2002-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:31:00

Affected Software

Microsoft msn_messenger_service 1.0

1.0

Microsoft msn_messenger_service 2.0

2.0

Microsoft msn_messenger_service 2.2

2.2

Microsoft msn_messenger_service 3.0

3.0

Microsoft msn_messenger_service 3.6

3.6

Microsoft msn_messenger_service 4.0

4.0

Microsoft msn_messenger_service 4.5

4.5

Microsoft msn_messenger_service 4.6

4.6

References

20020523 Re: Misformated message header causes msn messenger to crash

msn-invite-dos(9161)

4827

Exploit

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