Thursday, August 16, 2007

New zero-day bug : Yahoo Messenger

A bug in Yahoo Messenger that first surfaced on a Chinese security forum can be used to hack a Windows PC, McAfee researchers confirmed today. The vulnerability, apparently a heap-overflow bug, can be exploited by duping a user into accepting a malicious webcam invitation, said Wei Wang, a Beijing-based researcher at McAfee's Avert Labs.

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