CVE-2016-2377
pidgin: MXIT HTTP Content-Length Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · June 21, 2016
Updated · May 7, 2026
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.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 5.6CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 2.0 · 5.1AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow