Misformated message header causes msn messenger to crash

Introduction to the flaw. Msn Messenger is a popular Instant-Messaging client from Microsoft. After the previous flaws regarding the privacy of users another flaw is discovered. This flaw makes the msn messenger client crash after receiving a misformated font variable in the message header with...

Potential vulnerabilities of the Microsoft RVP-based Instant Messaging

The Encode Security Labs performed an empirical analysis of the Microsoft Instant Messaging implementation based on Exchange 2000 and using the MSN Messenger Service v3.6 client. The most important findings about the IM service are: -it does not offer any confidentiality -it is vulnerable to...