vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2017-2640: Moderate: pidgin security, bug fix, and enhancement update (RHSA-2017:1854)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 10, 2017
Added
Aug 3, 2017
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

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.

Solutions

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