Bug 991721 (CVE-2016-2379) - VUL-0: CVE-2016-2379: pidgin: hash password recovery
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2016-2379: pidgin: hash password recovery
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: CVE-2016-2379
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Felix Zhang
QA Contact: Security Team bot
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/170379/
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Reported: 2016-08-02 13:53 UTC by Marcus Meissner
Modified: 2016-08-02 13:53 UTC (History)
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Description Marcus Meissner 2016-08-02 13:53:09 UTC 
CVE-2016-2379

https://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=95

Pidgin Security Advisory
Title	
Date	2016-06-21
CVE Name	CVE 2016-2379
Discovered By	Yves Younan of Cisco Talos
Description	An attacker who eavesdrops on a Mxit session captures the user's hashed password. The hashed password can be re-used to login as that user. (TALOS-CAN-0122)
Fixed in Version	
Fix	N/A. This is a fundamental problem with the Mxit protocol.

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http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-2379
Comment 1 Marcus Meissner 2016-08-02 13:53:32 UTC 
pidgin says it is a problem of the MXIT protocol and can not be fixed.