cve-2016-2367-00

Summary Pidgin MXIT Avatar Length Memory Disclosure Vulnerability
Date 2016-06-21
CVE Number CVE-2016-2367
Talos Report ID TALOS-2016-0135
Discovered By Yves Younan of Cisco Talos
Fixed In Release 2.11.0

Description

A malicious user, server, or man-in-the-middle could trigger a crash or unexpected writing of data from memory to file.

Mitigation

Various changes to the chunk decoding.

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