Security Advisory

CVE-2017-6517

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-03-23 20:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 15:33:19
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Microsoft Skype 7.16.0.102 contains a vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the targeted system. This vulnerability exists due to the way .dll files are loaded by Skype. It allows an attacker to load a .dll of the attacker's choosing that could execute arbitrary code without the user's knowledge.The specific flaw exists within the handling of DLL (api-ms-win-core-winrt-string-l1-1-0.dll) loading by the Skype.exe process.