Buffer overflow in Yahoo Messenger

CVE-2009-4171

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 the RegisterMe method with a long argument.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.051 (91.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Yahoo Messenger — versions 9.0.0.2162
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

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