Critical
Security advisory
Use-after-free vulnerability in bitlbee-libpurple before 3.5 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code by causing a file transfer connection to expire.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-10188
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:14 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Use-after-free vulnerability in bitlbee-libpurple before 3.5 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code by causing a file transfer connection to expire.
osv:CVE-2016-10188
Complete source record
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