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CVE-2016-10189

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.0% 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-476

Description

BitlBee before 3.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a file transfer request for a contact that is not in the contact list.

Affected products

• Bitlbee: through 3.4.2
• Bitlbee-Libpurple: through 3.5

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/95931
• https://bugs.bitlbee.org/ticket/1282
• https://github.com/bitlbee/bitlbee/commit/701ab8129ba9ea64f569daedca9a8603abad740f
• 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/95931
• https://bugs.bitlbee.org/ticket/1282
• https://github.com/bitlbee/bitlbee/commit/701ab8129ba9ea64f569daedca9a8603abad740f

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