A vulnerability has been identified in Skype, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a memory corruption error within the "skype4com" URI handler when processing short string values, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page.
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