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Yahoo Messenger JPG Photo Sharing Integer Overflow Vulnerability

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Buffer overflow

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.1

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

12 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

This host is installed with Yahoo! Messenger and is prone to integer overflow vulnerability.

Insight

Insight

The flaw is due to an integer overflow error in the 'CYImage::LoadJPG()' method (YImage.dll) when allocating memory using the image dimension values.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Yahoo! Messenger version prior to 11.5.0.155 on Windows.

Solution

Solution

Upgrade to Yahoo! Messenger version 11.5.0.155 or later.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)