CVE-2016-2377
HIGH severity · CVSS 8.1 · Memory corruption
8.1CVSS HIGH
Summary
A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent by the server could potentially result in an out-of-bounds write of one byte. A malicious server can send a negative content-length in response to a HTTP request triggering the vulnerability.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=93 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=93Patch
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3620Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91335Advisory
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0119/Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3031-1Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-38