{"id":"CVE-2016-2370","details":"A denial of service vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent from the server could potentially result in an out-of-bounds read. A malicious server or man-in-the-middle attacker can send invalid data to trigger this vulnerability.","modified":"2026-04-16T06:18:06.659540523Z","published":"2017-01-06T21:59:00.727Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2016:2416-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91335"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0138/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3031-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-38"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3620"},{"type":"FIX","url":"http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=103"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"2.10.12"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"12.04"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"14.04"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"15.10"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"8.0"}]}],"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2370.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}