CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-2378
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-119
Description
A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol Pidgin. Specially crafted data sent via the server could potentially result in a buffer overflow, potentially resulting in memory corruption. A malicious server or an unfiltered malicious user can send negative length values to trigger this vulnerability.
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 (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3620 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=94 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91335 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0120/ 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=94 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91335 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0120/ 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