Vulnerability CVE-2008-5181
Published: 2008-11-20   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Microsoft Communicator allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application or device outage) via instant messages containing large numbers of emoticons.

Type:

CWE-399

 (Resource Management Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Microsoft -> Office communicator 

 References:
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/46671
http://www.voipshield.com/research-details.php?id=131
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021294
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