CVE-2016-2377

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin

published January 6, 2017

CVSS
—
EPSS
3%
Percentile
85.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent by the server could potentially result in an out-of-bounds write of one byte. A malicious server can send a negative content-length in response to a HTTP request triggering the vulnerability.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02591 · 85.2th percentile
Published
2017-01-06T21:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 JAN 21:00Z
    A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin
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