Skype UTF-8 Symbol Messages Denial of Service Vulnerability
26 Mar. 2012
Summary
Skype is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability because of a memory-corruption vulnerability.
Credit:
The information has been provided by Benjamin Kunz Mejri (Rem0ve) & Alexander Fuchs (f0x23.
The original article can be found at: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52810
An attacker can exploit this issue to cause an affected application to crash, denying service to legitimate users. Due to the nature of this issue, arbitrary code-execution may be possible; this has not been confirmed.
Vendor Status:
Skype had issued an update for this vulnerability
