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CVE-2002-1665

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in Yahoo! Messenger before February 2002 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long set_buddygrp field.

Affected products

• yahoo Messenger: 5.0

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101439616623230&w=2
• http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-16.html
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/755755
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101439616623230&w=2
• http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-16.html
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/755755

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