A vulnerability has been identified in MSN Messenger, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error within the processing of video conversations, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into accepting a specially crafted MSN video conversation.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by team 509.
ChangeLog
2007-08-28 : Initial release
2007-09-11 : Updated Solution
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