CVE-2016-2369

Publication date

2017-01-06 21:00:00

Family

certcc

State

PUBLISHED

Description

A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent via the server could potentially result in a denial of service vulnerability. A malicious server can send a packet starting with a NULL byte triggering the vulnerability.