CVE-2016-2372

Description

An information leak exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent via the server could potentially result in an out-of-bounds read. A malicious user, server, or man-in-the-middle attacker can send an invalid size for a file transfer which will trigger an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. This could result in a denial of service or copy data from memory to the file, resulting in an information leak if the file is sent to another user.

Affected packages (1)

• Debian/pidginfrom 0, < 2.11.0-1

CVSS scores

References (1)

• ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2372