CVE-2016-2378 (GCVE-0-2016-2378)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-01-06 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:24
VLAI
Summary
A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol Pidgin. Specially crafted data sent via the server could potentially result in a buffer overflow, potentially resulting in memory corruption. A malicious server or an unfiltered malicious user can send negative length values to trigger this vulnerability.
Severity
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • buffer overflow
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=94 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91335 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-20… x_refsource_MISC
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3620 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-38 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3031-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Pidgin Pidgin Affected: 2.10.11
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Date Public
2016-06-21 00:00
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      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "pidgin: MXIT get_utf8_string Code Execution Vulnerability",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2016/cve-2016-2378.json",
      "version": "3"
    },
    "suse_vex": {
      "aggregate_severity": "moderate",
      "current_release_date": "2025-10-07T11:06:28Z",
      "cve": "CVE-2016-2378",
      "id": "CVE-2016-2378",
      "initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T05:06:00Z",
      "product_status:known_affected": "28",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "78",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2016-2378",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2016-2378.json",
      "version": "9"
    }
  }
}



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