PT-2016-5142 · Pidgin+3 · Pidgin+3

Yves Younan · Published 2016-06-23 · Updated 2025-04-20 · CVE-2016-2373

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Pidgin (affected versions not specified)

Description A denial of service issue exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol. Specially crafted MXIT data sent via the server could result in an out-of-bounds read. A malicious server or user can send an invalid mood to trigger this issue.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

DoS

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1727

CVE-2016-2373

DLA-542-1

DSA-3620-1

MGASA-2016-0236

SUSE-SU-2016:2416-1

USN-3031-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Pidgin

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 64

• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3031-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2373 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3620-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-38 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2373 · Vendor Advisory
• http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=106 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2373 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2370 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2376 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2373 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3031-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2365 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2373 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2380 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4323 · Vendor Advisory