Vulnerability in Yahoo Messenger

CVE-2005-0242

The Audio Setup Wizard (asw.dll) in Yahoo! Messenger 6.0.0.1750, and possibly other versions, allows attackers to arbitrary code by placing a malicious ping.exe program into the Messenger program directory, which is installed with weak default permissions.

EPSS: 0.005 (37.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Yahoo Messenger — versions 5.5, 5.6, 5.6.0.1351
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)