An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the way Pidgin before 2.12.0 processed XML content. A malicious remote server could potentially use this flaw to crash Pidgin or execute arbitrary code in the context of the pidgin process.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2018-07-27T18:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T14:02:07.253Z

Reserved: 2016-12-01T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-2640

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-07-27T18:29:00.970

Modified: 2019-10-09T23:27:00.633

Link: CVE-2017-2640

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-03-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-2640 - Bugzilla