National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-0583

Overview

Cross-zone scripting vulnerability in the Internet Explorer web control in Skype 3.6.0.244, and earlier 3.5.x and 3.6.x versions, on Windows allows user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML in the Local Machine Zone via the Description and unspecified other metadata fields of a Metacafe movie submitted by Metacafe Pro to the Skype video gallery, accessible through a search within the (1) "Add video to chat" or (2) "Add video to mood" dialog, a different vector than CVE-2008-0454.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#794236

Name: VU#794236

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/794236

External Source: XF

Name: skype-addvideotochat-code-execution(39754)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/39754

External Source: BID

Name: 27338

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27338

External Source: MISC

Name: http://skype.com/security/skype-sb-2008-001-update1.htm

Hyperlink:http://skype.com/security/skype-sb-2008-001-update1.htm

External Source: MISC

Name: http://aviv.raffon.net/2008/01/22/NoMoreVideosForYouComeBackWhenPatchAvailable.aspx

Hyperlink:http://aviv.raffon.net/2008/01/22/NoMoreVideosForYouComeBackWhenPatchAvailable.aspx