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Overview

Characteristics

Exploit-YWIDGET is a detection for Yahoo! Widgets YDPCTL ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerability.

The Buffer Overflow Vulnerability is in YDPCTL.dll ActiveX control of Yahoo widgets which can be exploited by malicious users to cause remote code execution.

Symptoms

This detection is sufficiently generic, such that it can cover a number of threats that contain the exploit code.  Therefore, it is not possible to describe specific symptoms or details about system changes that can occur from this threat.  However, simply seeing this detection does not mean that any exploit code was run at all as such exploit code could only run on a vulnerable system.

Additionally some exploits simply cause Internet Explorer to crash and nothing more.

Method of Infection

This threat could be delivered via an email message, IM or an infectious web page.

Removal

A combination of the latest DATs and the Engine will be able to detect and remove this threat. AVERT recommends users not to trust seemingly familiar or safe file icons, particularly when received via P2P clients, IRC, email or other media where users can share files.

Additional Windows ME/XP removal considerations

Variants

Variants

N/A

All Information

Overview -

Exploit-YWIDGET is a detection for Yahoo! Widgets YDPCTL ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerability.

Characteristics

Characteristics -

Exploit-YWIDGET is a detection for Yahoo! Widgets YDPCTL ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerability.

The Buffer Overflow Vulnerability is in YDPCTL.dll ActiveX control of Yahoo widgets which can be exploited by malicious users to cause remote code execution.

Symptoms

Symptoms -

This detection is sufficiently generic, such that it can cover a number of threats that contain the exploit code.  Therefore, it is not possible to describe specific symptoms or details about system changes that can occur from this threat.  However, simply seeing this detection does not mean that any exploit code was run at all as such exploit code could only run on a vulnerable system.

Additionally some exploits simply cause Internet Explorer to crash and nothing more.

Method of Infection

Method of Infection -

This threat could be delivered via an email message, IM or an infectious web page.

Removal -

Removal -

A combination of the latest DATs and the Engine will be able to detect and remove this threat. AVERT recommends users not to trust seemingly familiar or safe file icons, particularly when received via P2P clients, IRC, email or other media where users can share files.

Additional Windows ME/XP removal considerations

Variants

Variants -

N/A