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MSN Messenger Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA9313
Release Date: 2003-07-21
Popularity: 10,191 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Microsoft MSN Messenger 6.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in MSN Messenger allowing malicious people to crash the client.

The problem is that MSN Messenger can't handle invalid or incomplete pictures when showing the preview in the file transfer dialog. This allows malicious people to crash the client software if you accept to receive a picture.

Reportedly this affects build 6.0.0501 and earlier.

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