CVE-2006-5563: Yahoo Messenger

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Yahoo Messenger: version 8.0 only

Published 2006-10-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.