CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2005-0243

Published: Feb 17, 2005 | Modified: Sep 05, 2008
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Messenger Yahoo 5.5 (including) 5.5 (including)
Messenger Yahoo 5.6 (including) 5.6 (including)
Messenger Yahoo 5.6.0.1351 (including) 5.6.0.1351 (including)
Messenger Yahoo 6.0 (including) 6.0 (including)
Messenger Yahoo 6.0.0.1750 (including) 6.0.0.1750 (including)

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