An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the way Pidgin before 2.12.0 processed XML content. A malicious remote server could potentially use this flaw to crash Pidgin or execute arbitrary code in the context of the pidgin process.
References
Link Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96775 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1854 Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2640 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-10 Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3806 Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2018-07-27T18:00:00

Updated: 2018-07-28T09:57:01

Reserved: 2016-12-01T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2017-2640

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-07-27T18:29:00.970

Modified: 2019-10-09T23:27:00.633


Link: CVE-2017-2640

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cve-icon Redhat Information

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CWE