CVE-2016-2365

NameCVE-2016-2365
DescriptionA denial of service vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent via the server could potentially result in a null pointer dereference. A malicious server or an attacker who intercepts the network traffic can send invalid data to trigger this vulnerability and cause a crash.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-542-1, DSA-3620-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
pidgin (PTS)buster2.13.0-2fixed
bullseye2.14.1-1fixed
trixie, bookworm2.14.12-1fixed
sid2.14.13-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
pidginsourcewheezy2.10.10-1~deb7u2DLA-542-1
pidginsourcejessie2.11.0-0+deb8u1DSA-3620-1
pidginsource(unstable)2.11.0-1

Notes

http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0133/
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=98
https://bitbucket.org/pidgin/main/commits/1c4acc6977a8686ad980e5b820327c9c47dbeaca

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