Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in slp.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin 2.6.4 and Adium 1.3.8 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in an application/x-msnmsgrp2p MSN emoticon (aka custom smiley) request, a related issue to CVE-2004-0122. NOTE: it could be argued that this is resultant from a vulnerability in which an emoticon download request is processed even without a preceding text/x-mms-emoticon message that announced availability of the emoticon.
Exploits (1)
exploitdb
WORKING POC
VERIFIED
by Mathieu GASPARD · pythonremotemultiple
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/11203
References (24)
Core 24
Core References
Mailing List, Patch mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/02/1
Broken Link, Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory
x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/37953
Broken Link x_refsource_misc
http://d.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/3d02401cf232459fc80c0837d31e05fae7ae5467
Issue Tracking, Patch x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552483
Broken Link vendor-advisory
x_refsource_sunalert
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-277450-1
Broken Link, Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory
x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/37954
Broken Link vendor-advisory
x_refsource_mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:085
Mailing List mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/07/1
Broken Link vdb-entry
signature
x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17620
Broken Link vendor-advisory
x_refsource_sunalert
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1022203.1-1
Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory vdb-entry
x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3663
Broken Link x_refsource_confirm
http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/3d02401cf232459fc80c0837d31e05fae7ae5467/with/c64a1adc8bda2b4aeaae1f273541afbc4f71b810/libpurple/protocols/msn/slp.c
Mailing List vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/033771.html
Mailing List vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/033848.html
Permissions Required vdb-entry
x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1020
Mailing List vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html
Broken Link vdb-entry
signature
x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10333
Product x_refsource_misc
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/events/3596.en.html
Broken Link x_refsource_misc
http://d.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/4be2df4f72bd8a55cdae7f2554b73342a497c92f
Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory vdb-entry
x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3662
Broken Link x_refsource_confirm
http://d.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/c64a1adc8bda2b4aeaae1f273541afbc4f71b810
Mailing List mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/07/2
Broken Link third-party-advisory
x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/37961
Broken Link third-party-advisory
x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/38915
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.1285
EPSS Percentile
94.1%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-22
Status
published
Products (9)
adium/adium
1.3.8
fedoraproject/fedora
11
fedoraproject/fedora
12
opensuse/opensuse
11.0 - 11.2
pidgin/pidgin
2.6.4
redhat/enterprise_linux
4.0
redhat/enterprise_linux
5.0
suse/linux_enterprise
11.0
suse/linux_enterprise_server
10 sp2 (2 CPE variants)
Published
Jan 09, 2010
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026