Re: Skype Network Remote DoS Exploit

["Jay" <jay.tomas () infosecguru com>]

Am I missing something or if it was a concentrated DOS by bots or mischievous cretins, wouldnt we have network evidence 
like we see in another DOS situations. If the traffic was examined wouldnt we see different findings e.g. malicious 
calls vs. regular login traffic causing Skype's internal algorithms to choke?

Jay

----- Original Message -----
From: Roland Dobbins [mailto:rdobbins () cisco com]
To: bugtraq () securityfocus com
Sent: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:44:34 -0700
Subject: Re: Skype Network Remote DoS Exploit


On Aug 20, 2007, at 6:52 PM, Valery Marchuk wrote:

>  someone made a mistake in the code

I've no insight at all into this issue beyond what's been publicly
disseminated, but it's important to note that the Skype folks
explicitly stated that there was some sort of flaw in their P2P
communications mechanisms which led to the outage, FWIW.

AFAIK, Sype didn't blame Microsoft - they blamed a code flaw on their
part and stated that the coincidence of lots of reboots associated
with the most recent Microsoft updates exposed the Skype code flaw
(again, I've no insight into this matter beyond what Skype have
publicly stated).

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