vulnerability

CentOS Linux: CVE-2017-2640: Moderate: pidgin security, bug fix, and enhancement update (CESA-2017:1854)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 27, 2018
Added
Aug 28, 2019
Modified
May 25, 2023

Description

An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the way Pidgin before 2.12.0 processed XML content. A malicious remote server could potentially use this flaw to crash Pidgin or execute arbitrary code in the context of the pidgin process.

Solution(s)

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