CVE-2005-0242: Yahoo Messenger

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Audio Setup Wizard (asw.dll) in Yahoo! Messenger 6.0.0.1750, and possibly other versions, allows attackers to arbitrary code by placing a malicious ping.exe program into the Messenger program directory, which is installed with weak default permissions.

Affected products

• Yahoo Messenger: version 5.5 only; version 5.6 only; version 5.6.0.1351 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.0.0.1750 only

Published 2005-02-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.