Vulnerability Report

CVE-2007-4635

Title: Yahoo Messenger Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2007-4635

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Aug 31, 2007

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.15%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2007-4635: 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.

Impacted Vendors

yahoo 1

relatedcode 1

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25484 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25484

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2007-4635 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/30544

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 31, 2007 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:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.