CVE-2006-3298 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2006-3298

Yahoo! Messenger 7.5.0.814 and 7.0.438 allows remote attackers to cause...

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

messenger
Vulnerable Versions:
7.0.438, 7.5.0.814

Timeline

Official Publish: June 29th, 2006
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.