CVE-2016-2378

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

2.50% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 84.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

8.1 (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:H/I:H/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Moderate. 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.

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-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
• CWE-122Heap-based Buffer OverflowVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

76a751d92e660bf060c278e0b3ddd58f89d0eaa65e8eef3aadf6a26828d6e182

• www.pidgin.imhttp://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=94x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.securityfocus.com91335http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91335vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• www.talosintelligence.comhttp://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0120/x_refsource_MISC
• www.debian.orgDSA-3620http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3620vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201701-38https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-38vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• www.ubuntu.comUSN-3031-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3031-1vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU