CVE-2005-2225

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Microsoft MSN Messenger allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a plaintext message containing the ".pif" string, which is interpreted as a malicious file extension and causes users to be kicked from a group conversation. NOTE: it has been reported that Gaim is also affected, so this may be an issue in the protocol or MSN servers.

Microsoft MSN Messenger allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a plaintext message containing the ".pif" string, which is interpreted as a malicious file extension and causes users to be kicked from a group conversation. NOTE: it has been reported that Gaim is also affected, so this may be an issue in the protocol or MSN servers.

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

First reported 19 years ago

2005-07-12 04:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:51:00

Affected Software

Microsoft msn_messenger_service

References

1014444

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

http://www.digitalparadox.org/viewadvisories.ah?view=45

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

http://www.messenger-blog.com/?p=146

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

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