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.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2007-4998 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T15:17:28.168Z

Reserved: 2007-09-20T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2007-5017

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2007-09-20T21:17:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2007-5017

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