vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-2376: pidgin Multiple vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Jan 6, 2017 | Oct 26, 2017 | Oct 30, 2017 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 6, 2017
Added
Oct 26, 2017
Modified
Oct 30, 2017
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.
Solution
alpine-linux-upgrade-pidgin
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