CVE-2016-1000030

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Source

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1000030

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-1000030.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-1000030

Downstream

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1000030

Published

2018-09-05T17:29:00Z

Modified

2025-08-09T19:01:27Z

Severity

9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

Pidgin version <2.11.0 contains a vulnerability in X.509 Certificates imports specifically due to improper check of return values from gnutlsx509crtinit() and gnutlsx509crtimport() that can result in code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via custom X.509 certificate from another client. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.11.0.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-1000030
https://bitbucket.org/pidgin/main/commits/d6fc1ce76ffe
https://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=91
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-38
https://www.suse.com/pt-br/security/cve/CVE-2016-1000030/

CVE-2016-1000030

Affected packages