Upgrade your Skype ASAP
According to Zeroday Initiative report, Skype has a vulnerability, which could result in a denial of service or arbitrary code execution. A remote attacker could attempt to exploit this issue by convincing a user to visit a specially-crafted Web page. To remove this vulnerability, all clients need to be updated or installed as of 11/15/2007 or later versions.
In order to avoid other guys to break into your computer, please upgrade your Skype to 3.6.
The below is the CVE information:
CVE ID: CVE-2007-5989
Affected Vendor: Skype
Affected Products: Skype < 3.6 GOLD
Disclosure Timeline:
2007.11.02 – Vulnerability reported to vendor:
2007.12.06 – Public release of advisory
Mostly, the vulnerabilities reported of Skype are those may result in Phishing or SPIM attacks. However, this one is by far severe that previous one.
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