Published: 16/05/2005 Updated: 18/10/2016

CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 505

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

The YMSGR URL handler in Yahoo! Messenger 5.x up to and including 6.0 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (disconnect) via a room login or a room join request packet with a third : (colon) and an & (ampersand), which causes Messenger to send a corrupted packet to the server, which triggers a disconnect from the server.

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source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/13626/info Yahoo! Messenger is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability because the application fails to handle exceptional conditions A remote user can cause Yahoo! Messenger to disconnect through malicious emails or web pages This issue is reported to affect Yahoo! Messenger versions 5x to 60 Wind ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13626 http://www.osvdb.org/16816 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111601904204055&w=2 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25658/

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