PT-2016-5139

CVE-2016-2370

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Published

2016-06-23

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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 denial of service issue exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol. Specially crafted MXIT data sent from the server could result in an out-of-bounds read. A malicious server or man-in-the-middle attacker can send invalid data to trigger this issue.
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.
Exploitability
Fix
Impacts
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
Related identifiers
ALT-PU-2016-1727
DLA-542-1
DSA-3620-1
MGASA-2016-0236
SUSE-SU-2016:2416-1
USN-3031-1
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