Is the MSN Chat control included with Windows Messenger in Windows XP?
No. The MSN Chat control is not included with Windows Messenger in Windows XP. However, Windows XP users can install the control by visiting an MSN Chat site and downloading the control. What is wrong with the MSN Chat control? An unchecked buffer in one of the functions that handles the input of certain parameters to the control. What would this vulnerability enable an attacker to do? An attacker who exploited this vulnerability successfully could run a program on a system that had the control installed. Since the MSN Chat control runs in the security context of the user, the program would be able to take any actions that the legitimate user was capable of taking, including adding or deleting data or configuration information. On the other hand, this also means that any limitations placed on the user’s account would apply to the attacker’s code as well. For example, if an enterprise administrator had implemented policies such that the user could not change their IE security setting, t
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