CVE-2006-5084

28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 16%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDSep 29

1st PoCSep 26

exploitation probability

16%top 3% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

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 products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/28710

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References

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