A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent by the server could potentially result in an out-of-bounds write of one byte. A malicious server can send a negative content-length in response to a HTTP request triggering the vulnerability.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: certcc
Published: 2017-01-06T21:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T23:24:49.304Z
Reserved: 2016-02-12T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-2377
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2017-01-06T21:59:01.007
Modified: 2024-11-21T02:48:20.643
Link: CVE-2016-2377
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