Security Advisory

CVE-2016-2376

8.1
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent from the server could potentially result in arbitrary code execution. A malicious server or an attacker who intercepts the network traffic can send an invalid size for a packet which will trigger a buffer overflow.
Published Date January 6, 2017
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory