FKIE_CVE-2016-2376

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-01-06 21:59 - Updated: 2025-04-20 01:37
Severity ?
8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent from the server could potentially result in arbitrary code execution. A malicious server or an attacker who intercepts the network traffic can send an invalid size for a packet which will trigger a buffer overflow.
References
cret@cert.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3620Third Party Advisory
cret@cert.orghttp://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=92Patch, Vendor Advisory
cret@cert.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91335Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cret@cert.orghttp://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0118/Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
cret@cert.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3031-1Third Party Advisory
cret@cert.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-38
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3620Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=92Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91335Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0118/Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3031-1Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-38
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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