CVE-2016-2372

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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."}, {"lang": "es", "value": "Existe una fuga de informaci\u00f3n en el manejo del protocolo MXIT en Pidgin. Datos MXIT especialmente manipulados enviados a trav\u00e9s del servidor podr\u00edan resultar potencialmente en una lectura fuera de l\u00edmites. Un usuario, servidor o atacante man-in-the-middle malicioso puede enviar un tama\u00f1o inv\u00e1lido para una transferencia de archivos que desencadenar\u00e1 una vulnerabilidad de lectura fuera de l\u00edmites. Esto podr\u00eda resultar en una denegaci\u00f3n de servicio o copia de datos desde la memoria al archivo, resultando en una fuga de informaci\u00f3n si el archivo es enviado a otro usuario."}], "lastModified": "2025-04-20T01:37:25.860", "configurations": [{"nodes": [{"negate": false, "cpeMatch": [{"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "vulnerable": true, "matchCriteriaId": "874D8FC9-41D0-49C7-9F8F-5C2DD33516AF", "versionEndIncluding": "2.10.12"}], "operator": "OR"}]}, {"nodes": [{"negate": false, "cpeMatch": [{"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*", "vulnerable": true, "matchCriteriaId": "B6B7CAD7-9D4E-4FDB-88E3-1E583210A01F"}, {"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*", "vulnerable": true, "matchCriteriaId": "B5A6F2F3-4894-4392-8296-3B8DD2679084"}, {"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "vulnerable": true, "matchCriteriaId": "E88A537F-F4D0-46B9-9E37-965233C2A355"}], "operator": "OR"}]}, {"nodes": [{"negate": false, "cpeMatch": [{"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "vulnerable": true, "matchCriteriaId": "C11E6FB0-C8C0-4527-9AA0-CB9B316F8F43"}], "operator": "OR"}]}], "sourceIdentifier": "cret@cert.org"}