CVE-2016-2374

Description

An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT MultiMX message sent via the server can result in an out-of-bounds write leading to memory disclosure and code execution.

References

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

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

http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0142/

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

http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=107

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3