Security Advisory

CVE-2016-2369

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-01-06 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 23:24:49
Assigner certcc
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State PUBLISHED

Description

A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent via the server could potentially result in a denial of service vulnerability. A malicious server can send a packet starting with a NULL byte triggering the vulnerability.