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CVE-2016-2376

N/A
Published: January 6, 2017 at 09:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:43 AM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsDebian LinuxUbuntu LinuxPidgin

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%

Description

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent from the server could potentially result in arbitrary code execution. A malicious server or an attacker who intercepts the network traffic can send an invalid size for a packet which will trigger a buffer overflow.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (6)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3620
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=92
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91335
x_refsource_MISCTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0118/
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3031-1
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-38

CVSS

6.8MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
PARTIAL
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119

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