An information leak exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent via the server could potentially result in an out-of-bounds read. A malicious user, server, or man-in-the-middle attacker can send an invalid size for a file transfer which will trigger an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. This could result in a denial of service or copy data from memory to the file, resulting in an information leak if the file is sent to another user.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: certcc
Published: 2017-01-06T21:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T23:24:49.128Z
Reserved: 2016-02-12T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-2372
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2017-01-06T21:59:00.807
Modified: 2024-11-21T02:48:19.087
Link: CVE-2016-2372
Redhat