Ubuntu: USN-3031-1 (CVE-2016-2370): Pidgin vulnerabilities
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
07/12/2016
07/25/2018
07/12/2016
04/25/2018
Description
A denial of service vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent from the server could potentially result in an out-of-bounds read. A malicious server or man-in-the-middle attacker can send invalid data to trigger this vulnerability.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-libpurple0
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