Signature Detail

HTTP: Yahoo CD Player ActiveX Control

This signature detects attempts to use unsafe ActiveX controls in Yahoo CD Player. An attacker can create a malicious Web site containing Web pages with dangerous ActiveX controls, which if accessed by a victim, allows the attacker to gain control of the victim's client browser.

Extended Description

The Yahoo! CD Player ActiveX control ('YoPlyCd.dll') is prone to a remote stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerability because the application fails to properly bounds check user-supplied input. Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code within the context of an application (typically Internet Explorer) that uses the ActiveX control. Failed exploit attempts will result in a denial-of-service condition.

Affected Products

• Yahoo! Yahoo! CD Player

References

• BugTraq: 51011
• URL: http://www.yahoo.com