CVE-2007-4515

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 33.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-08-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in a certain ActiveX control in YVerInfo.dll before 2007.8.27.1 in the Yahoo! services suite for Yahoo! Messenger before 8.1.0.419 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors involving arguments to the (1) fvCom and (2) info methods. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

yahoo Messenger: through 8.1.0.413

References

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=591
http://messenger.yahoo.com/security_update.php?id=082907
http://osvdb.org/37739
http://secunia.com/advisories/26579
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3083
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018628
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25494
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3011
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36363
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=591
http://messenger.yahoo.com/security_update.php?id=082907
http://osvdb.org/37739

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