Published: 29/09/2006 Updated: 08/12/2016

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 755

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Format string vulnerability in the NSRunAlertPanel function in eBay Skype for Mac 1.5.*.79 and previous versions allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed Skype URL, as originally reported to involve a null dereference.

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source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/20218/info Skype is prone to a remote format-string vulnerability because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input before using it in the format-specification argument of a formatted-printing function Exploiting this issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary machine code in ...

CWE-20 http://security-protocols.com/vids/skype_osx_0day.htm http://www.security-protocols.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3259 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20218 http://www.skype.com/security/skype-sb-2006-002.html http://securitytracker.com/id?1016966 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/202604 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3895 http://secunia.com/advisories/22185/https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/28710/https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/202604

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