CVE-2016-2370

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

published January 6, 2017

CVSS
—
EPSS
2%
Percentile
81.6
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 from the server could potentially result in an out-of-bounds read. A malicious server or man-in-the-middle attacker can send invalid data to trigger this vulnerability.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02115 · 81.6th 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