CVE-2009-0647

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…

published February 19, 2009

CVSS
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EPSS
17%
Percentile
97.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.17365 · 97.1th percentile
Published
2009-02-19T16:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 FEB 16:00Z
    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…
    cvelistv5