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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2016-10188

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.

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1 Nov 2026, 04:14 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2016-10188

core-osv · Original source

Published 14 Mar 2017, 14:59 UTC

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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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-10188",
  "method": "structured",
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-11-01T02:30:38.007258862Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 429194,
  "published_at": "2017-03-14T14:59:00.34+00:00"
}