Vulnerability Report

CVE-2007-4515

Title: Yahoo Messenger RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2007-4515

CWE Category CWE-119
Published Date Aug 31, 2007
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Available
Score 9.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
33.01%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2007-4515: Buffer overflow in a certain ActiveX control in YVerInfo.dll before 2007.8.27.1 in the Yahoo! services suite for Yahoo! Messenger before 8.1.0.419 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors involving arguments to the (1) fvCom and (2) info methods. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Impacted Vendors

R
relatedcode 1
Y
yahoo 1

Reference Links

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=591 http://messenger.yahoo.com/security_update.php?id=082907 http://osvdb.org/37739 http://secunia.com/advisories/26579 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3083 http://securitytracker.com/id?1018628 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25494 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3011 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36363 http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=591 http://messenger.yahoo.com/security_update.php?id=082907 http://osvdb.org/37739 http://secunia.com/advisories/26579 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3083 http://securitytracker.com/id?1018628 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25494 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3011 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36363
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-2007-4515 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4351
View Code
Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16522
View Code
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.