PT-2016-5148

CVE-2016-2380

Published

2016-06-23

Updated

2017-03-30

Description by

CVSS 2.0

4.3

Medium

MetricsAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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

Description An issue exists in Pidgin related to the handling of the MXIT protocol. Specifically crafted MXIT data could lead to an out-of-bounds read. This could occur if a user is convinced to enter a particular string that gets converted incorrectly.

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-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read

Related identifiers

CVE-2016-2380

ALT-PU-2016-1727