Yahoo! Player Playlist Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

A vulnerability has been identified in Yahoo! Player, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error when processing playlists (e.g. ".m3u" or ".pls") containing overly long data, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a malicious playlist file.