65974 : Skype for Mac OS X Chat Unicode Handling Remote DoS
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
7	1021	almost 3 years ago	over 2 years ago	6 times	80%

Timeline

Disclosure Date
2010-05-10

Time to Exploit	Time to Vendor Response
1 days	1 days

Description

Skype for Mac OS X contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is triggered when a chat message containing Unicode characters is received, and will result in loss of availability for the service and chat log access.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Products

Skype Technologies S.A.

Skype for Mac OS X

2.8

References

SCIP VulDB ID: 4142
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://developer.skype.com/jira/browse/SCM-681
Mail List Post: http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2010/Jun/208
Other Advisory URL: http://www.scip.ch/?vuldb.4142
Vendor URL: http://www.skype.com/

Credit

Marc Ruef - scip AG

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