Yahoo Messenger

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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.

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.

Solution:
Update to version 6.0.0.1921 or later.
http://messenger.yahoo.com/

Provided and/or discovered by:
Andreas Sandblad, Secunia Research.

http://ca.messenger.yahoo.com/downloadsucc...xe=1&p=Netscape