Bug 991708 (CVE-2016-2375) - VUL-0: CVE-2016-2375: pidgin: MXIT Suggested Contacts Memory Disclosure Vulnerability
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2016-2375: pidgin: MXIT Suggested Contacts Memory Disclosure Vulne...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-2375
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P3 - Medium : Normal
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Assignee: Felix Zhang
QA Contact: Security Team bot
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/170401/
Whiteboard: CVSSv2:SUSE:CVE-2016-2375:4.3:(AV:N/A...
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Reported: 2016-08-02 13:22 UTC by Marcus Meissner
Modified: 2020-11-10 21:20 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Found By: Security Response Team
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Description Marcus Meissner 2016-08-02 13:22:49 UTC 
rh#1348880

An exploitable out-of-bounds ready exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT contact information sent from the server can result in memory disclosure.

External references:

http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0143/
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=108

Upstream fixes:

https://bitbucket.org/pidgin/main/commits/b786e9814536

References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1348880
Comment 1 Marcus Meissner 2016-08-02 13:24:01 UTC 
issue seems in sle11 and sle12.
Comment 2 Swamp Workflow Management 2016-08-02 22:02:18 UTC 
bugbot adjusting priority
Comment 4 Felix Zhang 2018-06-11 13:44:58 UTC 
With Mxit officially shut down its services in 2016 and pidgin dropped support to the protocol since 2.12. Efforts to backport the fix won't make much sense.
Discussed with Johannes and decided to close this as WONTFIX.