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CVE-2006-3298

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-06-29 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• yahoo Messenger: 7.0.438, 7.5.0.814

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/20773
• http://www.security.nnov.ru/Gnews281.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18622
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27319
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20773
• http://www.security.nnov.ru/Gnews281.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18622
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27319

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