CVE-2002-0031: Yahoo Messenger

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflows in Yahoo! Messenger 5,0,0,1064 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a ymsgr URI with long arguments to (1) call, (2) sendim, (3) getimv, (4) chat, (5) addview, or (6) addfriend.

Affected products

• Yahoo Messenger: version 5.0 only

Published 2002-07-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.