CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-5084
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-09-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
Format string vulnerability in the NSRunAlertPanel function in eBay Skype for Mac 1.5.*.79 and earlier allows remote attackers 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.
Affected configurations
• skype technologies skype (<= 1.5.0.79)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22185/ secunia.com
- http://security-protocols.com/vids/skype_osx_0day.htm security-protocols.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016966 securitytracker.com
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/202604 US Government Resource
- http://www.security-protocols.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3259 www.security-protocols.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20218 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.skype.com/security/skype-sb-2006-002.html www.skype.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3895 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22185/ secunia.com
- http://security-protocols.com/vids/skype_osx_0day.htm security-protocols.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016966 securitytracker.com
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/202604 US Government Resource
- http://www.security-protocols.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3259 www.security-protocols.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20218 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.skype.com/security/skype-sb-2006-002.html www.skype.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3895 Vendor Advisory