CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-0242

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2005-02-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-02-18
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

Affected configurations

• yahoo messenger 5.5 • yahoo messenger 5.6 • yahoo messenger 5.6.0.1351 • yahoo messenger 6.0 • yahoo messenger 6.0.0.1750

References