Vulnerability CVE-2014-3697
Published: 2014-10-29

Description:
Absolute path traversal vulnerability in the untar_block function in win32/untar.c in Pidgin before 2.10.10 on Windows allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a drive name in a tar archive of a smiley theme.

Type:

CWE-22

 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.4/10
4.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Pidgin -> Pidgin 

 References:
http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=89
http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/68b8eb10977f
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00037.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00023.html
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