{"id":"CVE-2016-2377","details":"A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent by the server could potentially result in an out-of-bounds write of one byte. A malicious server can send a negative content-length in response to a HTTP request triggering the vulnerability.","modified":"2026-03-15T22:05:46.225263Z","published":"2017-01-06T21:59:01.007Z","related":["MGASA-2016-0236"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3620"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91335"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0119/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3031-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-38"},{"type":"FIX","url":"http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=93"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2377.json","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"}]}]}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}