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SUSE: CVE-2016-2367: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2016-2367: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/29/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/12/2016
Modified
01/26/2018

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 can send an invalid size for an avatar 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 avatar is sent to another user.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-finch
  • suse-upgrade-finch-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libpurple
  • suse-upgrade-libpurple-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libpurple-lang
  • suse-upgrade-pidgin
  • suse-upgrade-pidgin-devel

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