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CVE-2010-0278

N/A

Published: January 12, 2010 at 05:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:15 PM UTC

3 products affected across 1 vendorWindows Live MessengerWindows 7Windows Vista

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 8%

Description

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 crash) by calling the ViewProfile method with a crafted argument during an MSN Messenger session.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Windows Live Messenger · Microsoft

95%

microsoft-windows-7 (environment) · microsoft-windows-vista (environment)

Windows 7 · Microsoftdevice

80%

All versions

Windows Vista · Microsoftdevice

80%

All versions

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (2)

Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508811/100/0/threaded

VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDExploit

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37680

CVSS

4.3MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: NONE
Integrity: NONE
Availability: PARTIAL

Vector?

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StatusMODIFIED

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

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