Two Yahoo! Messenger Vulnerabilities
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Yahoo! Messenger Audio Setup Wizard Privilege Escalation
Critical: Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch
Software: Yahoo! Messenger 5.x, Yahoo! Messenger 6.x…
Solution:
Update to version 6.0.0.1921 or later.
http://messenger.yahoo.com/“
“Yahoo! Messenger File Transfer Filename Spoofing
Critical: Less critical
Impact: Spoofing
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch
Software: Yahoo! Messenger 6.x
Description:
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Yahoo! Messenger, which can be exploited by malicious people to trick users into executing malicious files.
The problem is that files with long filenames are not displayed correctly in the file transfer dialogs. This can be exploited to trick users into accepting and potentially executing malicious files.
Successful exploitation requires that the option “Hide extension for known file types” is enabled in Windows (default setting).
The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 6.0.0.1750. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution: Update to version 6.0.0.1921 or later.
http://messenger.yahoo.com/“
One Comment
Annette
February 20th, 2007
at 7:22am
I have had to unistall Yahoo messenegr 3 times now, thelast time it took over the computer, sending myself and the pc into orbit. The screen displayed in enormous print and icons, and it kept changing, with windows opening all over the place. So ~ no good for me thanks