Upstream information

CVE-2016-2376 at MITRE

Description

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent from the server could potentially result in arbitrary code execution. A malicious server or an attacker who intercepts the network traffic can send an invalid size for a packet which will trigger a buffer overflow.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 6.8 6.8
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network Network
Access Complexity Medium Medium
Authentication None None
Confidentiality Impact Partial Partial
Integrity Impact Partial Partial
Availability Impact Partial Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 8.1
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 984655 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 991686 [RESOLVED / WONTFIX]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 pidgin Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 pidgin Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 pidgin Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 pidgin Unsupported
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 pidgin Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 pidgin Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 pidgin Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 pidgin Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1 pidgin Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2 pidgin Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP3 pidgin Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP3 pidgin Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 pidgin Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 pidgin Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 pidgin Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 pidgin Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 pidgin Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP2 pidgin Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP3 pidgin Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 pidgin Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 pidgin Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 pidgin Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2 pidgin Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3 pidgin Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 pidgin Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 pidgin Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP1 pidgin Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 pidgin Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 SP1 pidgin Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 SP2 pidgin Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 SP3 pidgin Unsupported
openSUSE Leap 15.3 pidgin Unsupported

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Jun 22 11:30:25 2016
CVE page last modified: Thu Oct 10 13:29:51 2024