McAfee has confirmed a zero-day vulnerability in Yahoo’s popular instant messaging solution, Yahoo Messenger. McAfee’s Avert Labs is a security research firm designed to tackle security issues as soon as they trickle into the world, and the crew first noticed the potential flaw on a post on a Chinese-language security forum. The flaws, according to McAfee, allows for a user-assisted remote code execution attack, meaning an IM user has to act in response to a prompt from a hacker in order for the attack to proceed.
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Webcam Chats With Strangers Could Trigger Yahoo Messenger Attack
Posted by: Chris Maxcer August 16, 2007 02:40 PMMcAfee has confirmed a zero-day vulnerability in Yahoo’s popular instant messaging solution, Yahoo Messenger. McAfee’s Avert Labs is a security research firm designed to tackle security issues as soon as they trickle into the world, and the crew first noticed the potential flaw on a post on a Chinese-language security forum. The flaws, according to McAfee, allows for a user-assisted remote code execution attack, meaning an IM user has to act in response to a prompt from a hacker in order for the attack to proceed.