Description
Buffer overflow in the Yahoo! Webcam Viewer ActiveX control in ywcvwr.dll 2.0.1.4 for Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.249 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long server property value to the receive method.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Access Vector
- network
- Access Cmplx
- medium
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- complete
- Integrity
- complete
- Availability
- complete
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- YAHOO
- Published
- 6/11/2007
- Last Modified
- 4/9/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
yahoo : messengeryahoo : messengeryahoo : messengeryahoo : messengeryahoo : messengeryahoo : messenger
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