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CVE-2016-2374

• 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-125

Description

An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT MultiMX message sent via the server can result in an out-of-bounds write leading to memory disclosure and 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=107
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91335
• http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0142/
• 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=107
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91335
• http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0142/
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3031-1
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-38

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