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Yahoo! Messenger 8.1 Unspecified Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Yahoo! Messenger is prone to an unspecified buffer-overflow vulnerability. The software purportedly fails to perform sufficient bounds-checking of user-supplied input before copying it to an insufficiently sized memory buffer.

Yahoo! Messenger 8.1 is reportedly vulnerable to this issue.