CVE-2007-5144

medium · 4.3

Buffer overflow in the GDI engine in Windows Live Messenger, as used for Windows MSN Live 8.1, allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash or system crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by placing a malformed file in a new folder under the Sharing Folders path, and triggering a synchronize operation through the Windows MSN Live online service, possibly related to extended file attributes and possibly related to an incomplete fix for MS07-046, as demonstrated by a (1) .jpg, (2) .gif, (3) .wmf, (4) .doc, or (5) .ico file.

4.3

CVSS

16.5%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

97th

EPSS percentile

2007-10-01

Published

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
microsoft	windows_live_messenger	8.1

Check a specific version with /api/v1/cve/match.

References

http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2007/09/windows-live-messenger-jpg-overflow.html
http://osvdb.org/45523
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25795
http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2007/09/windows-live-messenger-jpg-overflow.html
http://osvdb.org/45523
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25795

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2007-5144