PublicDateAtUSN: 2016-06-23
Candidate: CVE-2016-2371
PublicDate: 2017-01-06 21:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2371
 http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0139/
 http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=104
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3031-1
Description:
 An out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT
 protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent via the server could
 cause memory corruption resulting in code execution.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 seth-arnold> This patch doesn't enforce upper-limits; it seems
  insufficient to me.
 mdeslaur> patch listed in upstream avisory is wrong, it is actually the
 mdeslaur> fix for CVE-2016-2369
Bugs:
Priority: medium
Discovered-by: Yves Younan
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H [8.1 HIGH]

Patches_pidgin:
 upstream: https://bitbucket.org/pidgin/main/commits/f0287378203fbf496a9890bf273d96adefb93b74
upstream_pidgin: released (2.11.0-1)
precise_pidgin: released (1:2.10.3-0ubuntu1.7)
trusty_pidgin: released (1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.3)
trusty/esm_pidgin: released (1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.3)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_pidgin: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_pidgin: DNE
wily_pidgin: released (1:2.10.11-0ubuntu4.2)
xenial_pidgin: released (1:2.10.12-0ubuntu5.1)
devel_pidgin: released (1:2.10.12-0ubuntu6)