CVE-2006-3298 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Yahoo! Messenger 7.5.0.814 and 7.0.438 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via messages that contain non-ASCII characters, which triggers the crash in jscript.dll.

Published: 2006-06-29

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 3.0% Low

KEV: No

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:yahoo:messenger:7.0.438:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:yahoo:messenger:7.5.0.814:::::::*

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Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2006-3295	Yahoo! Messenger 7.5.0.814 and 7.0.438 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via messages that contain non-ASCII characters, which triggers the crash in jscript.dll.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.02993.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/20773
http://www.security.nnov.ru/Gnews281.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18622
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27319

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Yahoo Messenger

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-06-29T01:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T18:23:21.162Z

Reserved: 2006-06-28T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-3298

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-06-29T01:05:00.000

Modified: 2026-06-16T22:26:47.810

Link: CVE-2006-3298

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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