CVE-2016-2371 Memory corruption in Pidgin

What is CVE-2016-2371?

CVE-2016-2371 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 6 Jan 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-2371?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Pidgin Pidgin.

How do I fix CVE-2016-2371?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2016-2371 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-2371 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2371, GHSA-m274-j8c5-8jg4, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2371.