View at Official suse advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail
Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.
CVE-2016-2378 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.
A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol Pidgin. Specially crafted data sent via the server could potentially result in a buffer overflow, potentially resulting in memory corruption. A malicious server or an unfiltered malicious user can send negative length values to trigger this vulnerability.