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medium 5.9

CVE-2016-2373 json

A denial of service vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin.

published 2017-01-06 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-3457

cvss
5.9
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.3%
EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A denial of service vulnerability 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 server or user can send an invalid mood to trigger this vulnerability.

Patch / fix

  • pidgin Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.11.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2373

  • pidgin Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.3
  • pidgin Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1:2.10.12-0ubuntu5.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2373

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • pidgin SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 2.6.6-0.29.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:2416-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-2373 updated cvss 3.7

pidgin: MXIT Contact Mood Denial of Service Vulnerability

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 pidgin Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 finch, pidgin, libpurple, pidgin-perl, libpurple-tcl, libpurple-perl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 finch, pidgin, libpurple, pidgin-perl, libpurple-tcl, libpurple-perl
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • Pidgin Pidgin

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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