A denial of service vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent from the server could potentially result in an out-of-bounds read. A malicious server or man-in-the-middle attacker can send invalid data to trigger this vulnerability.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: certcc

Published: 2017-01-06T21:00:00

Updated: 2017-03-29T19:57:02

Reserved: 2016-02-12T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2016-2370

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-01-06T21:59:00.727

Modified: 2017-03-30T01:59:00.723


Link: CVE-2016-2370

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