CVE-2016-2377

2017-01-0621:00:00

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www.cve.org

8.1 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.011 Low

EPSS

Percentile

84.2%

JSON

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.

CNA Affected

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