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Skype fixes three critical flaws
Popular VoIP application vulnerable to buffer overflow attacks Iain Thomson, vnunet.com 26 Oct 2005 Skype has patched three security holes in its software, rated 'highly critical' by vulnerability testing organisation Secunia. The flaws include a buffer overflow that could be used to direct users to a specially crafted URL, a flaw in the handling of VCARD information that could allow a system takeover, and a heap-based buffer overflow that could be used to crash the VoIP application. British security testing specialist Pentest said that the flaws took a week to fix. Its researchers found the flaws on 18 October and reported it to Skype, which released an upgrade last night. The flaws affect all versions of Skype prior to version 1.4.83 and affect the Windows, Linux, Mac and Pocket PC platform code. The patched version of Skype is available for download here. Skype.com |
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Got that one today Graham, they are pretty quick to address problems and let their users know about updated versions being available - shame a certain other DC project can't be more like them but we won't mention Dimes here in case it upsets someone, whoops sorry, I already did.
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