CVE-2005-0242 Information

Description

The Audio Setup Wizard (asw.dll) in Yahoo! Messenger 6.0.0.1750 and possibly other versions allows attackers to arbitrary code by placing a malicious ping.exe program into the Messenger program directory which is installed with weak default permissions.

Reference

http://messenger.yahoo.com/security/update6.html http://secunia.com/advisories/11815 http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2004-6/advisory/