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Microsoft MSN Messenger Arbitrary File Retrieval Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA11078
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Release Date:
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2004-03-09
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Popularity:
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11,871 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Exposure of sensitive information
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Microsoft MSN Messenger 6.x
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Description:
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:
http://messenger.msn.com/
Provided and/or discovered by:
qFox and Mephisto
Original Advisory:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS04-010.mspx
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