CVE-2007-4391 (GCVE-0-2007-4391)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-08-17 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 14:53
VLAI
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in Kakadu kdu_v32m.dll in Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.413 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a certain length field in JPEG2000 data, as demonstrated by sending an "invite to view my webcam" request, and then injecting a DLL into the attacker's peer Yahoo! Messenger application when this request is accepted.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2314 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
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https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
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http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/… x_refsource_MISC
http://www.team509.com/expyahoo.rar x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/26501 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25330 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://osvdb.org/38221 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018586 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://www.xfocus.net/bbs/index.php?act=ST&f=2&t… x_refsource_MISC
Date Public
2007-08-12 00:00
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