CVE-2007-4034

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 13.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-07-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the YDPCTL.YDPControl.1 (aka Yahoo! Installer Plugin for Widgets) ActiveX control before 2007.7.13.3 (20070620) in YDPCTL.dll in Yahoo! Widgets before 4.0.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the GetComponentVersion method. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

yahoo Widgets: through 4.0.5

References

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/widgets/security/security-08.html
http://osvdb.org/37705
http://secunia.com/advisories/26011
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/120760
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25086
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018470
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2679
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/widgets/security/security-08.html
http://osvdb.org/37705
http://secunia.com/advisories/26011
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/120760
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25086

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