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Yahoo! Chat and Messenger Stack and Heap Overflows
Secunia Advisory: SA9760
Release Date: 2003-09-17
Popularity: 13,272 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Yahoo! Chat
Yahoo! Messenger 5.x

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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been identified in Yahoo! Chat and Messenger possibly allowing malicious people to execute arbitrary code through HTML documents.

The problem is that the "TargetName" parameter isn't properly verified in Yahoo! Webcam Viewer Wrapper ActiveX control. This can be exploited to cause both a stack and a heap based overflow which possibly could lead to execution of arbitrary code.

Another problem has been identified in the handling of the "AppId" parameter in the YInstStarter ActiveX control. This may be exploited to cause a heap overflow which could lead to execution of arbitrary code.

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