cve-2016-2370-00

Summary Pidgin MXIT Custom Resource Denial of Service Vulnerability
Date 2016-06-21
CVE Number CVE-2016-2370
Talos Report ID TALOS-2016-0138
Discovered By Yves Younan of Cisco Talos
Fixed In Release 2.11.0

Description

A malicious server or man-in-the-middle could trigger a crash.

Mitigation

Various changes to the chunk decoding.

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