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medium 5.0

CVE-2006-3298 json

Yahoo! Messenger 7.5.0.814 and 7.0.438 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via messages that contain non-ASCII cha…

published 2006-06-29 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-3295

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.0%
EPSS 3.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Yahoo! Messenger 7.5.0.814 and 7.0.438 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via messages that contain non-ASCII characters, which triggers the crash in jscript.dll.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-28099)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

2.99% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-28099 Yahoo! Messenger 7.0/7.5 - 'jscript.dll' Non-ASCII Character Denial of Service dos, 2006-06-23
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18622 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • secunia.com http://secunia.com/advisories/20773 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

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