RE: Skype exploitable vulnerabilities and risks pointers

["Andrew Blair" <Andrew.Blair () genmills com>]

There is also a good paper about how it works at:
http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~library/TR-repository/reports/reports-2004/
cucs-039-04.pdf

It was written in '04, though so there may be some changes.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gadi Evron [mailto:ge () linuxbox org] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 3:08 AM
To: Serge Vondandamo
Cc: pen-test () securityfocus com; vuln-dev () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Skype exploitable vulnerabilities and risks pointers

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Serge Vondandamo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am conducting a research for exploitable vulnerabilities in Skype 
> and their associated risks to corporate environments.
>
> Any Security concern and how to mitigate them if possible. Skype 
> engineers, your constructive inputs are welcome.
>
> Does anybody have some good references, mailing lists, urls or papers 
> regarding Skype?
>
> Thanks,
> Serge

Best link to start with is this blackhat Europe preso:
http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-06/bh-eu-06-biondi/bh-eu
-06-biondi-up.pdf

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