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Yahoo Messenger: vulnerabilities and CVEs

Yahoo Messenger has 33 published vulnerabilities, 0 of them in the last 12 months. 0 are rated critical and 0 are listed by CISA as actively exploited.

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CVESeverityEPSSActive exploitationPublishedDescription
CVE-2014-7216High (9.3)6.8%—Sep 11, 2015
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in Yahoo! Messenger 11.5.0.228 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via the (1) shortcut or (2) title keys in…
CVE-2012-0268Medium (5.1)1.7%—Jan 19, 2012
Integer overflow in the CYImage::LoadJPG method in YImage.dll in Yahoo! Messenger before 11.5.0.155, when photo sharing is enabled, might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted JPG image that…
CVE-2009-4171Medium (4.3)5.1%—Dec 2, 2009
An ActiveX control in YahooBridgeLib.dll for Yahoo! Messenger 9.0.0.2162, and possibly other 9.0 versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) by calling…
CVE-2007-5017Medium (5)2.5%—Sep 20, 2007
Absolute path traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in the CYFT object in ft60.dll in Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.421 allows remote attackers to force a download, and create or overwrite arbitrary files via a…
CVE-2007-4635Medium (5)2.1%—Aug 31, 2007
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.…
CVE-2007-4515High (9.3)33%—Aug 31, 2007
Buffer overflow in a certain ActiveX control in YVerInfo.dll before 2007.8.27.1 in the Yahoo! services suite for Yahoo! Messenger before 8.1.0.419 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified…
CVE-2007-4391High (9.3)9.3%—Aug 17, 2007
Heap-based buffer overflow in Kakadu kdu_v32m.dll in Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.413 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a certain length field in JPEG2000 data, as demonstrated by…
CVE-2007-3928High (7.6)5.7%—Jul 21, 2007
Buffer overflow in Yahoo! Messenger 8.1 allows user-assisted remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a long e-mail address in an address book entry. NOTE: this might overlap CVE-2007-3638.
CVE-2007-3638Medium (6)2.4%—Jul 10, 2007
Buffer overflow in Yahoo! Messenger 8.1 allows user-assisted remote authenticated users, who are listed in an address book, to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, aka ZD-00000005. NOTE: this information is…
CVE-2007-3147High (9.3)40%—Jun 11, 2007
Buffer overflow in the Yahoo! Webcam Upload ActiveX control in ywcupl.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 send method.…
CVE-2007-3148High (9.3)12%—Jun 11, 2007
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.
CVE-2007-1680High (9.3)8.4%—Apr 6, 2007
Stack-based buffer overflow in the createAndJoinConference function in the AudioConf ActiveX control (yacscom.dll) in Yahoo! Messenger before 20070313 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via long (1)…
CVE-2007-0868Medium (5)1.2%—Feb 9, 2007
Unspecified vulnerability in the Chat Room functionality in Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.239 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors. NOTE: the provenance of this information…
CVE-2007-0768Medium (4.3)1.8%—Feb 6, 2007
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Contact Details functionality in Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.209 and earlier allow user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a…
CVE-2006-6603High (9.3)6.6%—Dec 15, 2006
Buffer overflow in the YMMAPI.YMailAttach ActiveX control (ymmapi.dll) before 2005.1.1.4 in Yahoo! Messenger allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document. NOTE: some details were…
CVE-2006-5563Medium (5)1.7%—Oct 27, 2006
Unspecified vulnerability in Yahoo! Messenger (Service 18) before 8.1.0.195 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and application crash) via a crafted room name in a Conference Invite.…
CVE-2006-4975Low (2.6)1.2%—Sep 25, 2006
Yahoo! Messenger for WAP permits saving messages that contain JavaScript, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a URL at the online service.
CVE-2006-3298Medium (5)3.0%—Jun 29, 2006
Yahoo! Messenger 7.5.0.814 and 7.0.438 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via messages that contain non-ASCII characters, which triggers the crash in jscript.dll.
CVE-2005-1671Low (2.1)0.37%—May 19, 2005
The Logfile feature in Yahoo! Messenger 5.x through 6.0 can be activated by a YMSGR: URL and writes all output to a single ypager.log file, even when there are multiple users, and does not properly warn later users that…
CVE-2005-1618Medium (5)3.2%—May 16, 2005
The YMSGR URL handler in Yahoo! Messenger 5.x through 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disconnect) via a room login or a room join request packet with a third : (colon) and an & (ampersand),…
CVE-2005-0737High (7.5)4.1%—May 2, 2005
Buffer overflow in Yahoo! Messenger allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the offline mode.
CVE-2005-0242Medium (4.6)0.46%—Feb 18, 2005
The Audio Setup Wizard (asw.dll) in Yahoo! Messenger 6.0.0.1750, and possibly other versions, allows attackers to arbitrary code by placing a malicious ping.exe program into the Messenger program directory, which is…
CVE-2005-0243Medium (5)1.0%—Feb 17, 2005
Yahoo! Messenger 6.0.0.1750, and possibly other versions before 6.0.0.1921, does not properly display long filenames in file dialog boxes, which could allow remote attackers to trick users into downloading and executing…
CVE-2004-0043High (7.5)3.6%—Feb 3, 2004
Buffer overflow in Yahoo Instant Messenger 5.6.0.1351 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long filename in the download feature.
CVE-2003-1135Low (2.6)4.5%—Dec 31, 2003
Buffer overflow in Yahoo! Messenger 5.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a file send request (sendfile) with a large number of "%" (percent) characters after the Yahoo ID.
CVE-2002-2361Medium (5.8)1.2%—Dec 31, 2002
The installer in Yahoo! Messenger 4.0, 5.0 and 5.5 does not verify package signatures which could allow remote attackers to install trojan programs via DNS spoofing.
CVE-2002-1664Medium (6.4)3.2%—Dec 31, 2002
Yahoo! Messenger before February 2002 allows remote attackers to add arbitrary users to another user's buddy list and possibly obtain sensitive information.
CVE-2002-1665High (7.5)4.4%—Dec 31, 2002
Buffer overflow in Yahoo! Messenger before February 2002 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long set_buddygrp field.
CVE-2002-0031Medium (4.6)4.9%—Jul 26, 2002
Buffer overflows in Yahoo! Messenger 5,0,0,1064 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a ymsgr URI with long arguments to (1) call, (2) sendim, (3) getimv, (4) chat, (5) addview, or (6)…
CVE-2002-0032High (7.5)3.9%—Jul 26, 2002
Yahoo! Messenger 5,0,0,1064 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary script as other users via the addview parameter of a ymsgr URI.

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