PT-2010-2075 · Microsoft · Windows Live Messenger

Published 2010-01-12 · Updated 2018-10-10 · CVE-2010-0278

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Windows Live Messenger 2009 build 14.0.8089.726

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by crashing msnmsgr.exe. This is achieved by calling the ViewProfile method with a crafted argument during an MSN Messenger session.

Recommendations For Microsoft Windows Live Messenger 2009 build 14.0.8089.726, consider disabling the ViewProfile method as a temporary workaround until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-0278

Affected Products

Windows Live Messenger

References · 4

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/37680 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/11070 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-0278 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/508811/100/0/threaded · Note