CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-2374
8.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-01-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125, CWE-200
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.
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
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3620 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=107 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91335 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0142/ Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3031-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-38 security.gentoo.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3620 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=107 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91335 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0142/ Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3031-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-38 security.gentoo.org