CVE-2006-5563

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-10-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Yahoo! Messenger (Service 18) before 8.1.0.195 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and application crash) via a crafted room name in a Conference Invite. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

yahoo Messenger: 8.0

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-10/0518.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-10/0566.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/22510
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449667/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20625
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4193
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-10/0518.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-10/0566.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/22510
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449667/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20625
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4193

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