CVE-2016-2371: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent via the server could cause memory corruption resulting in code execution.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 15.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Pidgin Pidgin: up to and including 2.10.12

Published 2017-01-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.