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.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Sowhat (Nevis Labs).
ChangeLog
2008-05-13 : Initial release
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