CVE-2016-10188

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-03-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in bitlbee-libpurple before 3.5 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code by causing a file transfer connection to expire.

Affected products

Bitlbee: through 3.4.2

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3853
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/30/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/31/11
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95935
https://bugs.bitlbee.org/ticket/1281
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3853
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/30/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/31/11
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95935
https://bugs.bitlbee.org/ticket/1281

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