Sunday, December 31, 2006

Yahoo Messenger Tripped Up By ActiveX Bug

Yahoo (I'm not putting in the exclamation point) says there is a bug in their Yahoo Messenger due to a bad ActiveX control. The bug may trigger a buffer overflow, which could be activated by visiting a maliciously designed web page. Yahoo says you may be vulnerable if you installed Yahoo Messenger before 11/2/06 (although they didn't post this notice until 12/8/06). You can get an update that fixes this bug at http://messenger.yahoo.com/security_update.php?id=120806

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