qFox and Mephisto have discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft MSN Messenger, allowing malicious people to retrieve files from a vulnerable system.

The problem is that a malicious person can send a specially crafted request which can retrieve files from known locations. This can be exploited to retrieve any file which the current user got read access to.

This affects Microsoft MSN Messenger 6.0 and 6.1.

Solution
According to Microsoft an update is available:
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
qFox and Mephisto

Original Advisory
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS04-010.mspx

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area