CVE-2008-2111

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-05-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The ActiveX Control (yNotifier.dll) in Yahoo! Assistant 3.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors in the Ynoifier COM object that trigger memory corruption.

Affected products

Yahoo Assistant: through 3.6

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/30115
http://secway.org/advisory/AD20080506EN.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29065
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020004
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1471/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42233
http://secunia.com/advisories/30115
http://secway.org/advisory/AD20080506EN.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29065
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020004
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1471/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42233

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