CVE-2008-5179

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-5179
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-11-20 15:30:00 UTC
Updated2017-08-08 01:33:00 UTC
DescriptionUnspecified 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 Transport Control Protocol (RTCP) receiver report packet.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Microsoft Office Communications Server All All All All
Application Microsoft Office Communications Server All All All All
Application Microsoft Office Communicator All All All All
Application Microsoft Office Communicator All All All All
Application Microsoft Windows Live Messenger All All All All
Application Microsoft Windows Live Messenger All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Microsoft Communicator Real-time Transport Control Protocol Report Block Denial of Service | Research | VoIPshield Systems Inc. MISC www.voipshield.com
Microsoft Office Communicator VoIP Processing Bugs Let Remote Users Deny Service - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Microsoft Communicator RTCP Unspecified Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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