CVE-2016-2369

2017-01-0621:00:00

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www.cve.org

6.3 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.007 Low

EPSS

Percentile

80.7%

JSON

A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent via the server could potentially result in a denial of service vulnerability. A malicious server can send a packet starting with a NULL byte triggering the vulnerability.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Pidgin",
    "vendor": "Pidgin",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "2.10.11"
      }
    ]
  }
]