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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-2372: Pidgin: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-2372: Pidgin: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/06/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

An information leak exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent via the server could potentially result in an out-of-bounds read. A malicious user, server, or man-in-the-middle attacker can send an invalid size for a file transfer which will trigger an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. This could result in a denial of service or copy data from memory to the file, resulting in an information leak if the file is sent to another user.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-im-pidgin

References

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