National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-5017

Overview

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in the CYFT object in ft60.dll in Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.421 allows remote attackers to force a download, and create or overwrite arbitrary files via a full pathname in the second argument to the GetFile method.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: BID

Name: 25727

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25727

External Source: MILW0RM

Name: 4428

Hyperlink:http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/4428

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 38296

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/38296

External Source: XF

Name: yahoo-messenger-ft60-code-execution(36694)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/36694

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_KJDPaI2IlM5P9PP6N6dI.html

Hyperlink:http://www.shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_KJDPaI2IlM5P9PP6N6dI.html

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1018715

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018715