description: A denial of service vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent via the server could potentially result in a null pointer dereference. A malicious server or an attacker who intercepts the network traffic can send invalid data to trigger this vulnerability and cause a crash.
problem types: null pointer dereference
affected:
{
product: Pidgin
vendor: Pidgin
versions:
status: affected, version: 2.10.11
}