CVE-2016-2377
8.1
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 3.2%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2016-2377
To remediate CVE-2016-2377, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/pidgin—upgrade to 2.11.0-1 or later
Is CVE-2016-2377 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 3.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 2.11.0-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |