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 an out-of-bounds read. A malicious server or an attacker who intercepts the network traffic can send invalid data to trigger this vulnerability and cause a crash.
                
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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: certcc
Published: 2017-01-06T21:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T23:24:49.148Z
Reserved: 2016-02-12T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-2366
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 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Deferred
Published: 2017-01-06T21:59:00.570
Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860
Link: CVE-2016-2366
 Redhat
                        Redhat