Did Russian Hackers Crash Skype?

An anonymous reader sends us to the www.xakep.ru forum where a poster claims that the worldwide Skype crash was caused by Russian hackers (in Russian). The claim is that they found a local buffer overflow vulnerability caused by sending a long string to the Skype authorization server. You can try Google's beta Russian-to-English translation, but the interesting part is the exploit code, and that's more readable in the original. The Washington Post reports that Skype has denied this rumor.

Comments

Re:The code snippet seems to be wrong

[tftp]

It actually executes, I tried the loop just now.

Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA

[Arthur Grumbine]

And the long string was... "In Soviet Russia we are tired of all the mindless obligatory comments about the beloved Motherland."

Re:The code snippet seems to be wrong

[svallarian]

It's obviously a typo. Since it was Russian code, it was supposed to be xCCCP