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CVE-2016-2371

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-01-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

An out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent via the server could cause memory corruption resulting in code execution.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.10
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Pidgin: through 2.10.12

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3620
• http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=104
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91335
• http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0139/
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3031-1
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-38
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3620
• http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=104
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91335
• http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0139/
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3031-1
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-38

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