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CVE-2007-3928
Buffer overflow in Yahoo! Messenger 8.1 allows user-assisted remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a long e-mail…
- 7.6HighCVSS base score
- 5.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.6 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.7% · top 7.0% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.6.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- 26066 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.xdisclose.com/advisory/XD100002.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 24926 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1018398 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 2906 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- yahoo-messenger-address-book-bo(35434) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20070716 Yahoo Messenger 8.1 Buffer Overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2007-3912 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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