CVE-2006-5563 (GCVE-0-2006-5563)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-10-27 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 19:55
VLAI
Summary
Unspecified vulnerability in Yahoo! Messenger (Service 18) before 8.1.0.195 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and application crash) via a crafted room name in a Conference Invite. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained from third party information.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclo… mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/22510 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20625 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclo… mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4193 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449667/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Date Public
2006-10-24 00:00
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