CVE-2005-0243

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Yahoo! Messenger 6.0.0.1750, and possibly other versions before 6.0.0.1921, does not properly display long filenames in file dialog boxes, which could allow remote attackers to trick users into downloading and executing programs via file names containing a large number of spaces and multiple file extensions.

Yahoo! Messenger 6.0.0.1750, and possibly other versions before 6.0.0.1921, does not properly display long filenames in file dialog boxes, which could allow remote attackers to trick users into downloading and executing programs via file names containing a large number of spaces and multiple file extensions.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

Type

Yahoo

First reported 20 years ago

2005-02-17 05:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:45:00

Affected Software

Yahoo!メッセンジャー 5.5

5.5

Yahoo!メッセンジャー 5.6

5.6

Yahoo!メッセンジャー 5.6.0.1351

5.6.0.1351

Yahoo!メッセンジャー 6.0

6.0

Yahoo Messenger 6.0.0.1750

6.0.0.1750

References

13712

Patch, Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-2/advisory/

Patch, Vendor Advisory

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