CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-2372

5.9 MEDIUM Published 2017-01-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-01-06
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-125, CWE-200

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.

Affected configurations

• pidgin pidgin (<= 2.10.12) • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 15.10 • debian debian linux 8.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness

References