CVE-2009-0647 Information

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.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/33985 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501043/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33825 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0466 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48810