Vulnerability in Yahoo Messenger

CVE-2002-1665

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.

EPSS: 0.044 (90.4th 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 (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)