CVE-2006-3298 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published 29 Jun 2006 Updated 7 Aug 2024

Remote attackers can crash Yahoo! Messenger by sending messages with non-ASCII characters, causing a denial of service.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2006-3298?

CVE-2006-3298 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 29 Jun 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-3298?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Yahoo Messenger.

How do I fix CVE-2006-3298?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-3298 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2006-3298 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2006-3298 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-r434-w4gm-84p6.