Overview:
Yahoo! Inc. is an American computer services company with a mission
to "be the most essential global Internet service for consumers and
businesses". It operates an Internet portal, including the popular
Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo Messenger. According to Web trends Yahoo! is
the most visited website on the Internet today with more than 400
million unique users. The global network of Yahoo! websites received
3.4 billion page views per day on average as of October 2005.
Description:
Yahoo! Messenger is a widely used communicating program over the
Internet. A buffer overflow vulnerability is discovered in the Yahoo!
Messenger for Microsoft Windows. Buffer overflow occurs when Yahoo!
Messenger loads a specially crafted address book entry.
POC:
-Create a address book entry using yahoo portal with large amount of
'a' in "email address" textbox.
-Login to yahoo messenger
-Go to address book tab in yahoo messenger
-Place your mouse over the specially crafted address book entry
-Yahoo messenger will immediately crash
Exploitation Method:
-Send an address book to the victim with specially crafted address
-Social engineer the victim to place mouse over the imported address
Impact:
Successful exploitation may allows execution of arbitrary code with
Privilege of currently log users.
Original Advisory:
http://www.xdisclose.com/advisory/XD100002.html
Credits:
Rajesh Sethumadhavan has been credited with the discovery of this
vulnerability
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