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CVE-2002-1665
Buffer overflow in Yahoo! Messenger before February 2002 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute…
High7.5EPSS 4.4%
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- mitre
Description
Buffer overflow in Yahoo! Messenger before February 2002 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long set_buddygrp field.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.4% · top 8.6% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (3)
- CA-2002-16 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 20020221 Remote crashes in Yahoo messenger (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- VU#755755 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
Sources
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .