CVE-2016-2365

pidgin: MXIT Markup Command Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3.7

CVSS 3.0

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Published · June 21, 2016

Updated · May 7, 2026

Description

A 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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 3.7
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CVSS 2.0 · 2.6
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference