Vulnerability in Yahoo Messenger

CVE-2003-1135

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.

EPSS: 0.045 (90.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Yahoo Messenger — versions 5.6
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)