Description
Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.209 and 8.1.0.402 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via certain file-transfer packets, possibly involving a buffer overflow, as demonstrated by ym8bug.exe. NOTE: this might be related to CVE-2007-4515. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Access Vector
- network
- Access Cmplx
- low
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- partial
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20CWE-119
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- YAHOO
- Published
- 8/31/2007
- Last Modified
- 4/9/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
yahoo : messengeryahoo : messenger
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