CVE-2008-2111 (GCVE-0-2008-2111)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-05-07 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:49
VLAI
Summary
The ActiveX Control (yNotifier.dll) in Yahoo! Assistant 3.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors in the Ynoifier COM object that trigger memory corruption.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/30115 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1471… vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://secway.org/advisory/AD20080506EN.txt x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020004 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29065 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2008-05-06 00:00
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