Yahoo! Messenger Audio Conferencing ActiveX Control Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:23291

Info

Yahoo! Messenger Audio Conferencing ActiveX Control Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 23291
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE: CVE-2007-1680
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Apr 03 2007 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 10 2007 03:51PM
Credit: Peter Vreugdenhil reported this vulnerability to iDefense Labs.
Vulnerable: Yahoo! Messenger 8.0
Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.239
Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.209
Yahoo! Messenger 8.0.0.863
Yahoo! Messenger 8.0 2005.1.1.4
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Yahoo! Messenger Audio Conferencing ActiveX Control Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

The Audio Conferencing ActiveX control shipped with Yahoo! Messenger is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability. The software fails to perform sufficient bounds-checking of user-supplied input before copying it to an insufficiently sized memory buffer.

Yahoo! Messenger versions released prior to March 13, 2007 are vulnerable to this issue.

Exploit / POC

Yahoo! Messenger Audio Conferencing ActiveX Control Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Currently we are not aware of any exploits for this issue. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: mailto:[email protected].

Solution / Fix

Yahoo! Messenger Audio Conferencing ActiveX Control Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released software updates to address this issue. Yahoo! Messenger versions that were obtained after March 13, 2007 are not vulnerable to this issue.

When users of the affected software sign into the Yahoo! service, they should be automatically prompted to install the fixes. Please see the references for more information.

References

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