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Critical security vulnerability found in Skype

Publication:PC ProDate:Oct 27 2005
Reporter:Simon Aughton

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A highly critical security vulnerability has been discovered in various flavours of the Skype IP telephony software.

A boundary error exists when handling Skype-specific URI types such as 'callto://' and 'skype://'. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow and allows arbitrary code execution when the user clicks on a specially-crafted Skype-specific URL.




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