Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Vulnerability in Yahoo Messenger

<A HREF="http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/08/15/Vulnerability-in-Yahoo-Messenger_1.html">A new vulnerability in Yahoo's instant messenger</A> program can potentially cause unwanted code to run on a PC, according to security researchers.

Details of the vulnerability were first posted on a Chinese-language security forum and was later confirmed with Yahoo security officials, wrote Wei Wang, a researcher with McAfee's Avert lab in Beijing, on a company blog. So far, no exploit code has been published, wrote Karthik Raman, also of McAfee.

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