cve-2016-2376-00

Summary Pidgin MXIT read stage 0x3 Code Execution Vulnerability
Date 2016-06-21
CVE Number CVE-2016-2376
Talos Report ID TALOS-2016-0118
Discovered By Yves Younan of Cisco Talos
Fixed In Release 2.11.0

Description

A malicious server or man-in-the-middle could trigger a crash or potentially arbitrary code execution.

Mitigation

Verify the size from the packet.

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