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Secunia Research 18/02/2005
- Yahoo! Messenger File Transfer Filename Spoofing -
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Table of Contents
Affected Software....................................................1
Severity.............................................................2
Description of Vulnerability.........................................3
Solution.............................................................4
Time Table...........................................................5
Credits..............................................................6
References...........................................................7
About Secunia........................................................8
Verification.........................................................9
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1) Affected Software
Yahoo! Messenger 6.0.0.1750
Other versions may also be affected.
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2) Severity
Rating: Less critical
Impact: Spoofing
Where: From remote
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3) Description of Vulnerability
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Yahoo! Messenger,
which can be exploited by malicious people to trick users into
executing malicious files.
The problem is that files with long filenames are not displayed
correctly in the file transfer dialogs. This can be exploited to
trick users into accepting and potentially executing malicious files.
Details:
Yahoo! Messenger wraps overly long filenames and shows only the first
line of the filename in the file transfer dialogs. The file extension
can thus be spoofed for a filename containing a whitespace and two
file extensions.
Successful exploitation requires that the option
"Hide extension for known file types" is enabled in Windows
(default setting).
The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 6.0.0.1750. Other
versions may also be affected.
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4) Solution
Update to version 6.0.0.1921.
http://messenger.yahoo.com/
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5) Time Table
04/01/2005 - Vulnerability discovered.
10/01/2005 - Vendor notified.
19/01/2005 - Vendor confirms the vulnerability.
17/02/2005 - Vendor issued fixed version.
18/02/2005 - Public disclosure.
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6) Credits
Discovered by Andreas Sandblad, Secunia Research.
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7) References
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
candidate number CAN-2005-0243 for the vulnerability.
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8) About Secunia
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9) Verification
Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia web site:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-2/advisory/
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