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CVE-2007-5144

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 16.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-10-01 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

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.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows Live Messenger: 8.1

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

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