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CVE-2016-2377

Published: Jan 6, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent by the server could potentially result in an out-of-bounds write of one byte. A malicious server can send a negative content-length in response to a HTTP request triggering the vulnerability.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Pidgin	Pidgin	affected `2.10.11`

References

http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=93

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vdb-entry

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vendor-advisory

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http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0119/

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vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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