{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "cve@mitre.org", "ID": "CVE-2005-1618", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "The YMSGR URL handler in Yahoo! Messenger 5.x through 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disconnect) via a room login or a room join request packet with a third : (colon) and an & (ampersand), which causes Messenger to send a corrupted packet to the server, which triggers a disconnect from the server." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "20050513 Yahoo! Messenger URL Handler Remote DoS Vulnerability", "refsource": "BUGTRAQ", "url": "http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111601904204055&w=2" }, { "name": "13626", "refsource": "BID", "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13626" }, { "name": "16816", "refsource": "OSVDB", "url": "http://www.osvdb.org/16816" } ] } }