CVE-2016-2376
A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent from the server…
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- certcc
Description
A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent from the server could potentially result in arbitrary code execution. A malicious server or an attacker who intercepts the network traffic can send an invalid size for a packet which will trigger a buffer overflow.
Timeline
ID reserved
By certcc
- 11 months later
· 11 months later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.7% · top 10% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.
Weakness
- buffer overflow
- CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-119 and its CVEs
Affected products
References (6)
- http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=92 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0118/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 91335 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- DSA-3620 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- GLSA-201701-38 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- USN-3031-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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