MSN Messenger Malformed Font Field Remote DoS

low Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 1268

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack

Description

The remote host is running Microsoft MSN Messenger. Certain versions of MSN messenger are vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack. Specifically, a message received with a large amount of data (HTML encoded spaces %20 in particular) in the font field of the message header can cause the MSN client to crash. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote attacker to continuously crash a victim's IM client, causing a Denial of Service.

Solution

Upgrade to the latest version of MSN Messenger

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 1268

Family: Internet Messengers

Published: 8/20/2004

Updated: 3/6/2019

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:U/RC:X

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:microsoft:msn_messenger

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-1698

BID: 4675

Detections

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