CVE-2016-2372

Description

An information leak exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent via the server could potentially result in an out-of-bounds read. A malicious user, server, or man-in-the-middle attacker can send an invalid size for a file transfer which will trigger an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. This could result in a denial of service or copy data from memory to the file, resulting in an information leak if the file is sent to another user.

References

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

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

http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0140/

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

http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=105

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3