CVE-2016-2370
published 2017-01-06CVE-2016-2370: 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…
PriorityP428medium5.9CVSS 3.0
AVNACHPRNUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
2.12%
79.9th percentile
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.
Affected
11 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| debian | debian_linux | — | — |
| debian | pidgin | < pidgin 2.11.0-1 (bookworm) | pidgin 2.11.0-1 (bookworm) |
| pidgin | pidgin | <= 2.10.12 | — |
| pidgin | pidgin | — | — |
| pidgin | pidgin | >= 0 < 2.11.0-1 | 2.11.0-1 |
| pidgin | pidgin | >= 0 < 2.11.0-1 | 2.11.0-1 |
| pidgin | pidgin | >= 0 < 2.11.0-1 | 2.11.0-1 |
| pidgin | pidgin | >= 0 < 2.11.0-1 | 2.11.0-1 |
CVSS provenance
nvdv3.05.9MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
osv5.9MEDIUM
vendor_debian5.9MEDIUM
vendor_redhat5.9MEDIUM
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Ubuntu
Pidgin vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2016-07-12
CVE-2016-2365 Pidgin vulnerabilities
Title: Pidgin vulnerabilities
Summary: Pidgin could be made to crash or run programs if it received
specially crafted network traffic.
Yves Younan discovered that Pidgin contained multiple issues in the MXit
protocol support. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code.
Instructions: After a standard system update you need to restart Pidgin to make all the
necessary changes.
Red Hat
pidgin: MXIT Custom Resource Denial of Service Vulnerability
vendor_redhat·2016-06-21·CVSS 5.9
CVE-2016-2370 [MEDIUM] CWE-125 pidgin: MXIT Custom Resource Denial of Service Vulnerability
pidgin: MXIT Custom Resource Denial of Service Vulnerability
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.
Package: pidgin (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) - Will not fix
Package: pidgin (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Will not fix
Package: pidgin (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7) - Will not fix
Debian
CVE-2016-2370: pidgin - A denial of service vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in...
vendor_debian·2016·CVSS 5.9
CVE-2016-2370 [MEDIUM] CVE-2016-2370: pidgin - A denial of service vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in...
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.
Scope: local
bookworm: resolved (fixed in 2.11.0-1)
bullseye: resolved (fixed in 2.11.0-1)
forky: resolved (fixed in 2.11.0-1)
sid: resolved (fixed in 2.11.0-1)
trixie: resolved (fixed in 2.11.0-1)
GHSA
GHSA-cq7h-ghp5-qghc: A denial of service vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-17
CVE-2016-2370 [MEDIUM] CWE-125 GHSA-cq7h-ghp5-qghc: A denial of service vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin
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.
OSV
CVE-2016-2370: A denial of service vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin
osv·2017-01-06·CVSS 5.9
CVE-2016-2370 [MEDIUM] CVE-2016-2370: A denial of service vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin
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.
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
Talos
Vulnerability Spotlight: Pidgin Vulnerabilities
blogs_talos·2016-06-21·CVSS 5.9
[MEDIUM] Vulnerability Spotlight: Pidgin Vulnerabilities
## Vulnerability Spotlight: Pidgin Vulnerabilities
These vulnerabilities were discovered by Yves Younan .
Pidgin is a universal chat client that is used on millions of systems worldwide. The Pidgin chat client enables you to communicate on multiple chat networks simultaneously. Talos has identified multiple vulnerabilities in the way Pidgin handles the MXit protocol. These vulnerabilities fall into the following four categories.
Information Leakage
Denial Of Service
Directory Traversal
Buffer Overflow
The following vulnerabilities were identified (listed numerically by CVE):
CVE-2016-2365 - Pidgin MXIT Markup Command Denial of Service Vulnerability
CVE-2016-2366 - Pidgin MXIT Table Command Denial of Service Vulnerability
CVE-2016-2367 - Pidgin MXIT Avatar Length Memory Disclosure
Talos
Vulnerability Spotlight: Pidgin Vulnerabilities
blogs_talos·2016-06-21·CVSS 5.9
[MEDIUM] Vulnerability Spotlight: Pidgin Vulnerabilities
These vulnerabilities were discovered by Yves Younan.
Pidgin is a universal chat client that is used on millions of systems worldwide. The Pidgin chat client enables you to communicate on multiple chat networks simultaneously. Talos has identified multiple vulnerabilities in the way Pidgin handles the MXit protocol. These vulnerabilities fall into the following four categories.
- Information Leakage
- Denial Of Service
- Directory Traversal
- Buffer Overflow
The following vulnerabilities were identified (listed numerically by CVE):
CVE-2016-2365 - Pidgin MXIT Markup Command Denial of Service Vulnerability
CVE-2016-2366 - Pidgin MXIT Table Command Denial of Service Vulnerability
CVE-2016-2367 - Pidgin MXIT Avatar Length Memory Disclosure Vulnerability
CVE-2016-2368 - Pidgin MXIT g_sn
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-2370 pidgin: MXIT Custom Resource Denial of Service Vulnerability
bugzilla·2016-06-22·CVSS 5.9
CVE-2016-2370 [MEDIUM] CVE-2016-2370 pidgin: MXIT Custom Resource Denial of Service Vulnerability
CVE-2016-2370 pidgin: MXIT Custom Resource Denial of Service Vulnerability
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 can send invalid data to trigger this vulnerability.
External references:
http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0138/
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=103
Upstream fixes:
https://bitbucket.org/pidgin/main/commits/5e3601f8bde4
https://bitbucket.org/pidgin/main/commits/1c5197a66760
https://bitbucket.org/pidgin/main/commits/648f667a679c
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3620http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=103http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91335http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0138/http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3031-1https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-38http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3620http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=103http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91335http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0138/http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3031-1https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-38
2017-01-06
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