Crashing an application with the unexpected messages or text is the latest trend in cyber world. Few weeks earlier Apple messaging service crash has been reported and few months back safari, chrome crash has been reported. Recently a crash for Skype has been discovered.
Microsoft owned a VoIP Client under the name #Skype and it has millions of users globally for sending chat and also for video calling feature.
A set of characters exactly eight characters is more than enough to crash the skype application and on worse side it may force the user to reinstall the application for the normal proper functioning.
Consider a user X is on skype chat with user Y, Y wants to crash the X's skype means he/she can send the simple text to user X through chat window and may crash the X's skype application.
This bug has been reported to Skype forum and this bug works well in windows, Android and Apple IOS. However Skype in MAC and Windows 8.1 is unaffected by this bug as per the report.
This bug has more effect than the previously posted crash because clearing thee chat wont help since Skype downloads the chat everytime from the cloud during login.
The only solution till now is to uninstall the app and ask the person who sent the message to delete the message and then reinstall the application. Skype is yet to release the fix for this crash.
Since Skype is used globally by millions of user the text that causes the crash can't be revealed here.
P.S : The post is to create awareness and not to be misused.
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