MSN Messenger Web Camera Stream Vulnerability

MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger contain a heap overflow in the handling of malformed webcam streams. By convincing a user to accept a webcam invitation, a remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user on an affected system.

US-CERT is aware of publicly available exploit code for this vulnerability.

More information regarding this vulnerability can be found in Vulnerability Note VU#166521.

US-CERT recommends users upgrade to Windows Live Messenger 8.1 to mitigate the security risk.

Source: http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.html#msn_messenger_web_camera_stream

 

 

Published Wed, Aug 29 2007 9:04 by sandi