Vulnerability in Yahoo Messenger

CVE-2002-0031

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) addfriend.

EPSS: 0.049 (91.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Yahoo Messenger — versions 5.0
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, third-party-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)