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SUSE: CVE-2016-2372: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 29, 2016
Added
Oct 12, 2016
Modified
Jan 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 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.

Solutions

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