Kaspersky ID:
KLA10932
Detect Date:
06/21/2016
Updated:
01/22/2024

Description

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Pidgin. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to overwrite arbitrary files, cause denial of service, obtain sensitive information.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

  1. A directory traversal vulnerability in the handling of MXIT protocol can be exploited remotely via specially designed MXIT data sent from the server to overwrite arbitrary files;
  2. An out-of-bounds read vulnerability can be exploited remotely via specialy designed MXIT data (a particular string) possibly to obtain sensitive information;
  3. A buffer overflow vulnerability in the handling of MXIT protocol can be exploited remotely via specially designed data possibly to cause a denial of service.

Technical details

Vulnerability (1) occurs if liburple is triggered by man-in-the-middle or a malicious server to overwrite local files. The name and and content of these files can be specified by the remote attacker.

To trigger vulnerability (3) a malicious server or man-in-the-middle can send negative length values.

Original advisories

Related products

CVE list

  • CVE-2016-2380
    warning
  • CVE-2016-2378
    high
  • CVE-2016-4323
    high

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