Skype Restores Password Resets, Repairs Flaw that Allows Account Hijacking

UPDATE – Skype engineers have repaired a newly reported vulnerability that would allow someone to abuse the platform’s password-reset mechanism to take over another account. “We suspended the password reset feature temporarily this morning as a precaution and have made updates to the password res...

Skype < 4.2.0.155 URI Handler Security Vulnerability

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CVE-2005-2300

Skype 1.1.0.20 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the skypeprofile.jpg temporary file...