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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-2365: pidgin security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-2365: pidgin security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/06/2017
Created
11/20/2019
Added
11/19/2019
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

A denial of service vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent via the server could potentially result in a null pointer dereference. A malicious server or an attacker who intercepts the network traffic can send invalid data to trigger this vulnerability and cause a crash.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-libpurple

References

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