Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Pidgin's MXIT Protocol Handling

CVE-2016-2377 · 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 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.

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