Vulnerability Report

CVE-2007-4391

Title: Yahoo Messenger Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2007-4391

CWE Category CWE-20
Published Date Aug 17, 2007
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Available
Score 9.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
9.31%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2007-4391: Heap-based buffer overflow in Kakadu kdu_v32m.dll in Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.413 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a certain length field in JPEG2000 data, as demonstrated by sending an "invite to view my webcam" request, and then injecting a DLL into the attacker's peer Yahoo! Messenger application when this request is accepted.

Impacted Vendors

Y
yahoo 1
R
relatedcode 1

Reference Links

http://osvdb.org/38221 http://secunia.com/advisories/26501 http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2007/08/15/more-on-the-yahoo-messenger-webcam-0day/ http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/515968 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25330 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018586 http://www.team509.com/expyahoo.rar http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2917 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36115 https://www.xfocus.net/bbs/index.php?act=ST&f=2&t=64639&page=1#entry321749 http://osvdb.org/38221 http://secunia.com/advisories/26501 http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2007/08/15/more-on-the-yahoo-messenger-webcam-0day/ http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/515968 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25330 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018586 http://www.team509.com/expyahoo.rar http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2917 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36115 https://www.xfocus.net/bbs/index.php?act=ST&f=2&t=64639&page=1#entry321749
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
9.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2007-4391 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/30500
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Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4335
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MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.