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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: certcc
Published: 2017-01-06T21:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T23:24:49.076Z
Reserved: 2016-02-12T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-2365
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2017-01-06T21:59:00.523
Modified: 2024-11-21T02:48:18.207
Link: CVE-2016-2365
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