Bug 1348858 (CVE-2016-2365) - CVE-2016-2365 pidgin: MXIT Markup Command Denial of Service Vulnerability
Summary: CVE-2016-2365 pidgin: MXIT Markup Command Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-2365
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1350338 1403136
Blocks: 1348890
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Reported: 2016-06-22 08:39 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:40 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: pidgin 2.11.0
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:55:27 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-06-22 08:39:01 UTC 
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.

External references:

http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0133/
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=98

Upstream fix:

https://bitbucket.org/pidgin/main/commits/5fa3f2bc69d7
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