Description
Buffer overflow vulnerability was found in Yahoo! Messenger. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can cause denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely via a specially designed emoticons.xml file.
Technical details
Vulnerability caused by unrestricted emoticons parameters reading. This vulnerability can be exploited via changing content of emoticons.xml at title and shortcut elements. Changed emoticons file can be distributed via custom emoticons pack. At this moment vendor does not plan to release special patch for this vulnerability.
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CVE list
- CVE-2014-7216 critical
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