FKIE_CVE-2016-2371
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-01-06 21:59 - Updated: 2025-04-20 01:37
Severity ?
Summary
An out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent via the server could cause memory corruption resulting in code execution.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| pidgin | pidgin | * | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 12.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 14.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 15.10 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 8.0 |
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