Windows Live Messenger vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.
Windows Live Messenger is made by Microsoft. We track 9 published vulnerabilities in it, across 5 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Windows Live Messenger, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.
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None of Windows Live Messenger's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.
Which Windows Live Messenger flaws are most likely to be used?
Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.
- 55%CVE-2007-2931Critical
Heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft MSN Messenger 6.2, 7.0, and 7.5, and Live Messenger 8.0 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors involving video conversation...
- 17%CVE-2009-0647Medium
msnmsgr.exe in Windows Live Messenger (WLM) 2009 build 14.0.8064.206, and other 14.0.8064.x builds, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a modified header in a packet, as...
- 17%CVE-2007-5144Medium
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...
- 16%CVE-2008-5179Medium
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS), Office Communicator, and Windows Live Messenger allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Real-time...
- 14%CVE-2008-5828Medium
Microsoft Windows Live Messenger Client 8.5.1 and earlier, when MSN Protocol Version 15 (MSNP15) is used over a NAT session, allows remote attackers to discover intranet IP addresses and port numbers by reading the...
- 11%CVE-2006-6252Medium
Microsoft Windows Live Messenger 8.0 and earlier, when gestual emoticons are enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long string composed of ":D" sequences, which are...
- 8.3%CVE-2010-0278Medium
A certain ActiveX control in msgsc.14.0.8089.726.dll in Microsoft Windows Live Messenger 2009 build 14.0.8089.726 on Windows Vista and Windows 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (msnmsgr.exe...
- 6.8%CVE-2006-3250Medium
Heap-based buffer overflow in Windows Live Messenger 8.0 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Contact List (.ctt) file, which triggers the overflow when it is imported by the user.
- 3.4%CVE-2009-2544Medium
Directory traversal vulnerability in the Marcelo Costa FileServer component 1.0 for Microsoft Windows Live Messenger and Messenger Plus!
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Heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft MSN Messenger 6.2, 7.0, and 7.5, and Live Messenger 8.0 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors involving video conversation handling in Web Cam and video chat sessions.
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We track 9 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Windows Live Messenger, across 5 versions.
None of Windows Live Messenger's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.
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