Skype Releases Hotfix for Windows
Source: www.voip-news.com
Skype released a hotfix for Skype 3.6 for Windows that fixes several vulnerabilities in the software in its previous incarnation including a variety of bugs from wrong country flags to crashing problems. The hotfix also improves connection speed from restrictive network environments.
Perhaps the most important element of the hotfix is that it closed critical gaps that left the users computer vulnerable to hi-jacking. According to ComputerWorld:
In a security advisory issued Tuesday, Skype said it fixed the underlying flaw publicized by Israeli researcher Aviv Raff nearly three weeks ago. The vulnerability, which Raff called a cross-zone scripting bug, could be exploited with rigged video files that leveraged a security flaw in the way Skype rendered HTML.
At root, Raff said, was the fact that Skype, which uses Internet Explorer’s Web control to handle internal and external HTML pages, ran the control in a low-security mode.
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