8.1

CVE-2016-2378

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol Pidgin. Specially crafted data sent via the server could potentially result in a buffer overflow, potentially resulting in memory corruption. A malicious server or an unfiltered malicious user can send negative length values to trigger this vulnerability.

Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
PidginPidgin Version <= 2.10.12
CanonicalUbuntu Linux Version12.04 SwEditionlts
CanonicalUbuntu Linux Version14.04 SwEditionlts
CanonicalUbuntu Linux Version15.10
DebianDebian Linux Version8.0
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 3.31% 0.868
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 8.1 2.2 5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvd@nist.gov 6.8 8.6 6.4
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.