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CVE-2016-2377
HIGH · CVSS 8.1
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-01-06T21:59:01.007 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:43:55.740

Summary

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent by the server could potentially result in an out-of-bounds write of one byte. A malicious server can send a negative content-length in response to a HTTP request triggering the vulnerability.

Affected products

pidgin — pidgin

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References

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