Vulnerabilities > CVE-2002-1665 - Denial-Of-Service vulnerability in Yahoo Messenger 5.0

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
yahoo

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Yahoo
1