CVE-2007-4635 EXPLOIT
5.0
MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 2.1% (pctl 82)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
Description
Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.209 and 8.1.0.402 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via certain file-transfer packets, possibly involving a buffer overflow, as demonstrated by ym8bug.exe. NOTE: this might be related to CVE-2007-4515. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.
Scoring
| CVSS | 5.0 (MEDIUM, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| EPSS | 2.15% — more likely to be exploited than 82% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-20 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2007-08-31 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| yahoo | messenger |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | Yahoo! Messenger 8.1 - File Transfer Denial of Service | 2007-08-29 |
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