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The patch, first posted to the Web late Thursday, repairs a security hole stemming from Yahoo Messenger's use of the portable network graphics--or PNG--format, an open-source code the program uses to display certain images, such as buddy list avatars.
The most critical issue, a memory problem known as a buffer overflow, could allow specially created PNG graphics to execute malicious programs when a vulnerable application loads an image.
Yahoo posted a security update on its Yahoo Messenger site. Found Here
 News source: ZDNet.com
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