CVE-2007-5017 Information

Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in the CYFT object in ft60.dll in Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.421 allows remote attackers to force a download and create or overwrite arbitrary files via a full pathname in the second argument to the GetFile method.

Reference

http://osvdb.org/38296 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25727 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018715 http://www.shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_KJDPaI2IlM5P9PP6N6dI.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36694 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4428