CVE-2016-2372 Information disclosure in Pidgin

What is CVE-2016-2372?

CVE-2016-2372 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 6 Jan 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An information leak exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent via the server could potentially result in an out-of-bounds read. A malicious user, server, or man-in-the-middle attacker can send an invalid size for a file transfer which will trigger an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. This could result in a denial of service or copy data from memory to the file, resulting in an information leak if the file is sent to another user.

Weakness: CWE-200, CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-2372?

It affects 3 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2016-2372?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2016-2372 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-2372 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-2016-2372, GHSA-5mwr-c2hc-vr2x, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2372.