Bug 1348873 (CVE-2016-2371) - CVE-2016-2371 pidgin: MXIT Extended Profiles Code Execution Vulnerability
Summary: CVE-2016-2371 pidgin: MXIT Extended Profiles Code Execution Vulnerability
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-2371
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: Engineering1350338 Engineering1403136
Blocks: Embargoed1348890
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Reported: 2016-06-22 08:59 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 02:55:36 UTC

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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-06-22 08:59:25 UTC 
An out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent via the server could cause memory corruption resulting in code execution.

External references:

http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0139/
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=104

Upstream fix:

https://bitbucket.org/pidgin/main/commits/7b52ca213832
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