CVE-2016-2370

Description

A denial of service vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent from the server could potentially result in an out-of-bounds read. A malicious server or man-in-the-middle attacker can send invalid data to trigger this vulnerability.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-38

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3031-1

http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0138/

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91335

http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=103

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3620

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3