suse · CVE-2016-2377

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 13:39:38 UTC Updated: 2024-10-12 01:54:51 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-2377 severity moderate: SUSE including 9 source package names (finch, finch-devel, …), 36 product×package rows across 6 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1, … (6 product lines)): Known Not Affected 36.

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.

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