CVE-2007-4635: Yahoo Messenger

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.209 and 8.1.0.402 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via certain file-transfer packets, possibly involving a buffer overflow, as demonstrated by ym8bug.exe. NOTE: this might be related to CVE-2007-4515. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Affected products

• Yahoo Messenger: version 8.1.0.209 only; version 8.1.0.402 only

Published 2007-08-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.