Vulnerability Report

CVE-2002-1665

Title: Yahoo! Messenger long set_buddygrp field buffer overflow

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2002-1665.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Dec 31, 2002

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

4.44%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2002-1665: Buffer overflow in Yahoo! Messenger before February 2002 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long set_buddygrp field.

Impacted Vendors

yahoo 1

relatedcode 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101439616623230&w=2 http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-16.html http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/755755 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101439616623230&w=2 http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-16.html http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/755755

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2002-1665 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 31, 2002 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.