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Microsoft Won't Patch a Severe Skype Vulnerability Anytime Soon

A serious vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft-owned most popular free web messaging and voice calling service Skype that could potentially allow attackers to gain full control of the host machine by granting system-level privileges to a local, unprivileged user. A Single-Character Message Can Crash Any iOS Device iPhone, iPad Or Mac The worst part is that this vulnerability will not be patched by Microsoft anytime soon. Knowing India's position in the 4G speed compared to the countries of the whole world will not be trusting It's not because the flaw is unpatchable, but because fixing the vulnerability requires a significant software rewrite, which indicates that the company will need to issue an all-new version of Skype rather than just a patch. The vulnerability has been discovered and reported to Microsoft by security researcher Stefan Kanthak and resides in Skype's update installer, which is susceptible to Dynamic Link Libraries...