PT-2006-4192 · Yahoo · Yahoo! Messenger

Published 2006-06-29 · Updated 2017-07-20 · CVE-2006-3298

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Yahoo! Messenger versions 7.0.438 through 7.5.0.814

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash, by sending messages that contain non-ASCII characters. This crash is triggered in the jscript.dll component.

Recommendations For versions 7.0.438 through 7.5.0.814, consider disabling the jscript.dll component as a temporary workaround until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-3298

Affected Products

Yahoo! Messenger

References · 6

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/18622 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/28099 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://secunia.com/advisories/20773 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-3298 · Security Note
• http://security.nnov.ru/Gnews281.html · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27319 · Note