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CVE-2005-2225

Medium
5/10

Summary

Microsoft MSN Messenger allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a plaintext message containing the ".pif" string, which is interpreted as a malicious file extension and causes users to be kicked from a group conversation. NOTE: it has been reported that Gaim is also affected, so this may be an issue in the protocol or MSN servers.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL

References

Advisory Timeline

  • Published