Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Pidgin's MXIT Protocol Handling

CVE-2016-2376 · MEDIUM Severity

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

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent from the server could potentially result in arbitrary code execution. A malicious server or an attacker who intercepts the network traffic can send an invalid size for a packet which will trigger a buffer overflow.

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