Vulnerabilities > CVE-2005-4817 - Format String vulnerability in TMSNC

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
tmsnc

Summary

Format string vulnerability in ui.c in Textbased MSN Client (TMSNC) before 0.2.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown attack vectors that cause format strings to be injected into the wprintw function.