Denial of Service Vulnerability in Pidgin's MXIT Protocol Handling

CVE-2016-2373 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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 an out-of-bounds read. A malicious server or user can send an invalid mood to trigger this vulnerability.

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