SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2007-4635

Messenger 8.1.0.209 and 8.1.0.402 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via certain file-transfer packets, possibly involving a buffer overflow, as demonstrated by ym8bug.exe.

MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 2.15%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.15%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.209 and 8.1.0.402 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via certain file-transfer packets, possibly involving a buffer overflow, as demonstrated by ym8bug.exe. NOTE: this might be related to CVE-2007-4515. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

CVSS 2.0
5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
2.15% probability · 81th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-20, CWE-119
Affected
yahoo/messenger
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.