Yahoo Instant Messenger YAUTO.DLL buffer overflow Vulnerability
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Risk
High
Date Discovered
12-03-2003
Description
A problem has been identified in the handling of some types of requests by ActiveX controls installed with Yahoo! Messenger, exposing a remotely exploitable buffer overrun. Because of this, it may be possible for an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable host.
Components Affected
Yahoo! Messenger 5.6 .0.1347
Yahoo! Messenger 5.6…
The vendor has released an update to address this issue:
Yahoo! Messenger 5.6 .0.1347:
Yahoo! Upgrade update4
http://messenger.yahoo.com/security/update4.html
Yahoo! Messenger 5.6:
Yahoo! Upgrade update4
http://messenger.yahoo.com/security/update4.html“
One Comment
Melissa Manie
August 16th, 2007
at 2:00pm
we are trying to find out what is going on with yahoo instant messenger. The chat rooms are unusable right now. Is there a chance this is going to be fixed?