National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-5502
Original release date:10/25/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Heap-based buffer overflow in the AOL.PicDownloadCtrl.1 ActiveX control (YGPPicDownload.dll) 9.2.3.0 in America Online (AOL) 9.0 Security Edition allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the AddPictureNoAlbum method, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5501.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
Solution
Users of the affected product are recommended to log in to the AOL service and a fix will be seamlessly applied to their system.}
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External Source: IDEFENSE
Name: 20061025 AOL YGPPDownload AddPictureNoAlbum ActiveX Control Heap Corruption Vulnerability
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: aol-ygp-addpicturenoalbum-bo(29795)
External Source: BID
Name: 20747
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-4197
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1017121
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22567
