usn-3031-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2016-07-12 16:48
Modified
2026-04-22 07:36
Summary
pidgin vulnerabilities
Details

Yves Younan discovered that Pidgin contained multiple issues in the MXit protocol support. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.


{
  "affected": [
    {
      "database_specific": {
        "cves_map": {
          "cves": [
            {
              "id": "CVE-2016-2365",
              "severity": [
                {
                  "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                  "score": "medium",
                  "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "id": "CVE-2016-2366",
              "severity": [
                {
                  "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                  "score": "medium",
                  "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "id": "CVE-2016-2367",
              "severity": [
                {
                  "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                  "score": "medium",
                  "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "id": "CVE-2016-2368",
              "severity": [
                {
                  "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                  "score": "medium",
                  "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "id": "CVE-2016-2369",
              "severity": [
                {
                  "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                  "score": "low",
                  "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "id": "CVE-2016-2370",
              "severity": [
                {
                  "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                  "score": "low",
                  "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "id": "CVE-2016-2371",
              "severity": [
                {
                  "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                  "score": "medium",
                  "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "id": "CVE-2016-2372",
              "severity": [
                {
                  "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H",
                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                  "score": "low",
                  "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "id": "CVE-2016-2373",
              "severity": [
                {
                  "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                  "score": "medium",
                  "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "id": "CVE-2016-2374",
              "severity": [
                {
                  "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                  "score": "medium",
                  "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "id": "CVE-2016-2375",
              "severity": [
                {
                  "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N",
                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                  "score": "medium",
                  "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "id": "CVE-2016-2376",
              "severity": [
                {
                  "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                  "score": "medium",
                  "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "id": "CVE-2016-2377",
              "severity": [
                {
                  "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                  "score": "medium",
                  "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "id": "CVE-2016-2378",
              "severity": [
                {
                  "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                  "score": "medium",
                  "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "id": "CVE-2016-2380",
              "severity": [
                {
                  "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N",
                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                  "score": "medium",
                  "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "id": "CVE-2016-4323",
              "severity": [
                {
                  "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N",
                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                  "score": "medium",
                  "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
        }
      },
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "finch",
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpurple-bin",
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpurple0",
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "pidgin",
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "pidgin-data",
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.3"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
        "name": "pidgin",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/pidgin@1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.3?arch=source\u0026distro=trusty"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.3"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "1:2.10.7-0ubuntu4.1",
        "1:2.10.7-0ubuntu4.2",
        "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu1",
        "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu2",
        "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3",
        "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.1",
        "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "Yves Younan discovered that Pidgin contained multiple issues in the MXit\nprotocol support. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to\ncrash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary\ncode.\n",
  "id": "USN-3031-1",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:36:33Z",
  "published": "2016-07-12T16:48:09Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3031-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2365"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2366"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2367"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2368"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2369"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2370"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2371"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2372"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2373"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2374"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2375"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2376"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2377"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2378"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2380"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4323"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "summary": "pidgin vulnerabilities",
  "upstream": [
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2365",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2366",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2367",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2368",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2369",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2370",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2371",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2372",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2373",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2374",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2375",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2376",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2377",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2378",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2380",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4323"
  ]
}



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