cve-2005-1269-00

Summary Remote Yahoo! crash
Date 2005-06-10
CVE Number CVE-2005-1269
Discovered By Jacopo Ottaviani
Fixed In Release 1.3.1

Description

Remove denial of service when being offered files with names containing non-ASCII characters.

Mitigation

Attempt to convert the file name to a usable encoding, or fail gracefully in the case of an invalid file name.

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