CVE-2007-3928 (GCVE-0-2007-3928)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-07-21 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 14:37
VLAI
Summary
Buffer overflow in Yahoo! Messenger 8.1 allows user-assisted remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a long e-mail address in an address book entry. NOTE: this might overlap CVE-2007-3638.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/26066 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.xdisclose.com/advisory/XD100002.html x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24926 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018398 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2906 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosur… mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
Date Public
2007-07-16 00:00
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