Unspecified vulnerability in Yahoo! Messenger (Service 18) before 8.1.0.195 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL…

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Yahoo! Messenger (Service 18) before 8.1.0.195 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and application crash) via a crafted room name in a Conference Invite. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained from third party information.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.7% · top 22% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (6)

• 20061026 Re: Yahoo! Messenger Service 18 Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
• 22510 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 20625 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 20061024 Yahoo! Messenger Service 18 Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
• ADV-2006-4193 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 20061025 Re: Yahoo! Messenger Service 18 Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_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)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2006-5563](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2006-5563.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2006-5563)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 19:55 UTC.