Yahoo Messenger Patches Security Hole
If you logged into Yahoo Messenger today and was taken a back by an automatic security download – don’t be scared, it’s no virus. Yahoo was only patching up a few holes.
Yahoo has posted a security patch for a flaw in its instant messaging software that could make a computer system vulnerable to crashes and attacks while a user surfs the web. TechWeb reports that the patch, which was posted on the company’s site last week, “plugs a hole in Yahoo’s use of portable network graphics, or PNG, a bitmapped graphics file format endorsed by the internet-standards body World Wide Web Consortium.”
TechWeb adds that Yahoo learned of the problem through a notice issued last week by the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team. The flaw enables PNG graphics to execute malicious code when an image is loaded into the system.
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