PT-2016-5138

CVE-2016-2369

Published

2016-06-23

Updated

2025-04-20

Description by

CVSS 3.1

5.9

Medium

MetricsAV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Pidgin (affected versions not specified)

Description A NULL pointer dereference issue exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol. Specially crafted MXIT data sent via the server could result in a denial of service. A malicious server can send a packet starting with a NULL byte to trigger this issue.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Impacts

Researchers

Yves Younan

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Related identifiers

CVE-2016-2369

ALT-PU-2016-1727

DLA-542-1