description: A denial of service vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent from the server could potentially result in an out-of-bounds read. A malicious server or man-in-the-middle attacker can send invalid data to trigger this vulnerability.
problem types: out-of-bounds read
affected:
{
product: Pidgin
vendor: Pidgin
versions:
status: affected, version: 2.10.11
}