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A denial of service attack exists in build 733 of Yahoo! Messenger. The vulnerability exists when Messenger leaves port 5010 open. When a connection is made on port 5010, Messenger crashes. The connection stays open until the user closes the program. Malicious users can not only crash Yahoo! Messenger users, but it also gives them the capability of scanning and detecting Messenger users across wide networks by simply scanning port 5010.

A denial of service attack exists in build 733 of Yahoo! Messenger. The vulnerability exists when Messenger leaves port 5010 open. When a connection is made on port 5010, Messenger crashes. The connection stays open until the user closes the program. Malicious users can not only crash Yahoo! Messenger users, but it also gives them the capability of scanning and detecting Messenger users across wide networks by simply scanning port 5010.