PT-2016-5148 · Pidgin+2 · Pidgin+2

Yves Younan · Published 2016-06-23 · Updated 2017-03-30 · CVE-2016-2380

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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

Description An issue exists in Pidgin related to the handling of the MXIT protocol. Specifically crafted MXIT data could lead to an out-of-bounds read. This could occur if a user is convinced to enter a particular string that gets converted incorrectly.

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

Information Disclosure

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1727

CVE-2016-2380

DLA-542-1

DSA-3620-1

MGASA-2016-0236

USN-3031-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Pidgin

Ubuntu

References · 51

• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3031-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2380 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3620-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-2380 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2380 · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-38 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2370 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2380 · Security Note
• 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
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2366 · Vendor Advisory