CVE-2016-2365

A denial of service vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin

published January 6, 2017

CVSS
—
EPSS
2%
Percentile
83.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A denial of service vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent via the server could potentially result in a null pointer dereference. A malicious server or an attacker who intercepts the network traffic can send invalid data to trigger this vulnerability and cause a crash.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02411 · 83.9th percentile
Published
2017-01-06T21:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 JAN 21:00Z
    A denial of service vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin
    cvelistv5