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

interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

isn't skype that open source shitcode used for voip? if such a faggot system was to be dropped to it's knees by some hackers [no pun intended] i guess there would be a big drop in the new cases of aids.

you see, fags are the leading reason that we still need to deal with aids today. if all of these fudge packers would just kill themselves we'd have much less to worry about. fags are a plague on society and skype is part of that endless system of fags and their converting others to faggotness.

i don't know about god but i hate fags.

Re:Look

[obarel]

You don't even need strncpy to write unsafe code. Look:

int *p;

*p = 5;

Amazing, isn't it?

Yes, it does make sense to learn how to use a programming language before using it. It's possible to use most <string.h> functions in an unsafe way - so what? The point is that some functions are inherently unsafe (strlen, strcpy) whereas some can actually be safe, if one knows how to use them, of course.

What do you mean "safety pin"? I just pricked myself!