CVE-2016-2365
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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.41% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 84.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.9 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-01-06 21:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 23:24Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-02-12
- Assigning CNA
- certcc
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476NULL Pointer DereferenceBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 462ba2a72ccf85a8b532acd7a7217831000a1e85eea397555d820dcf4673749a
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.pidgin.imhttp://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=98
- www.securityfocus.com91335http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91335
- www.debian.orgDSA-3620http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3620
- www.talosintelligence.comhttp://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0133/
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201701-38https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-38
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-3031-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3031-1
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- pidgin Fixed in 2.11.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- pidgin Fixed in 2.11.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- pidgin Fixed in 2.11.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- pidgin Fixed in 1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.3
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- pidgin Fixed in 1:2.10.12-0ubuntu5.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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