Security Advisory
CVE-2016-2377
8.1
HIGH
Vulnerability 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.
Published Date
January 6, 2017
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory