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Bug 1348873 - (CVE-2016-2371) CVE-2016-2371 pidgin: MXIT Extended Profiles Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2016-2371 pidgin: MXIT Extended Profiles Code Execution Vulnerability
Status: NEW
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=moderate,public=20160621,repor...
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Depends On: 1350338 1403136
Blocks: 1348890
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Reported: 2016-06-22 04:59 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2018-09-27 07:33 EDT (History)
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Fixed In Version: pidgin 2.11.0
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-06-22 04:59:25 EDT 
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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