KLA10406 ACe vulnerability in Yahoo! Messenger

2012-01-1900:00:00

Kaspersky Lab

threats.kaspersky.com

5.1 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

7.7 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.003 Low

EPSS

Percentile

69.4%

JSON

An integer overflow was found in Yahoo! Messenger. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely via a specially designed JPG image.

Original advisories

Related products

Yahoo!-Messenger

CVE list

CVE-2012-0268 high

Solution

Update to latest version

Yahoo messenger

Impacts

Arbitrary code execution. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to executing by abuser any code or commands at vulnerable machine or process.