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>> Yahoo! Assistant "ynotifier" ActiveX Control Code Execution Vulnerability
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Title : Yahoo! Assistant "ynotifier" ActiveX Control Code Execution Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1471
CVE ID : CVE-2008-2111
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-05-13
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A vulnerability has been identified in Yahoo! Assistant, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a memory corruption error when instantiating the "ynotifier.dll" ActiveX control, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected browser or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page.
Affected Products
Yahoo! Assistant version 3.6 and prior
Solution
Upgrade to the latest version.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1471
http://secway.org/advisory/AD20080506EN.txt
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Sowhat (Nevis Labs).
ChangeLog
2008-05-13 : Initial release
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