PT-2016-5146 · Pidgin+2 · Pidgin+2

Yves Younan · Published 2016-06-23 · Updated 2017-03-30 · CVE-2016-2377

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.1

High

Base vector

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

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

Description A buffer overflow issue exists in Pidgin's handling of the MXIT protocol. This can be triggered by specially crafted MXIT data from a server, potentially leading to an out-of-bounds write. A malicious server can exploit this by sending a negative content-length in response to an HTTP request.

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

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1727

CVE-2016-2377

DLA-542-1

DSA-3620-1

MGASA-2016-0236

USN-3031-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Pidgin

Ubuntu

References · 51

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2377 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3031-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=93 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3620-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2377 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-38 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2377 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2377 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2370 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2376 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3031-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2365 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2380 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4323 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2371 · Vendor Advisory