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CVE-2016-10189 (GCVE-0-2016-10189)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-03-14 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 03:14
VLAI
Summary
BitlBee before 3.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a file transfer request for a contact that is not in the contact list.
CWE
  • n/a
References
Date Public
2016-11-13 00:00
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