CVE-2014-3697

Pidgin < 2.10.10 - Path Traversal and Arbitrary File Write via Tar Archive in Smileys

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=89
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00023.html
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00037.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0384
EPSS Percentile 88.8%

Details

CWE
CWE-22
Status published
Products (10)
pidgin/pidgin 2.10.0
pidgin/pidgin 2.10.1
pidgin/pidgin 2.10.2
pidgin/pidgin 2.10.3
pidgin/pidgin 2.10.4
pidgin/pidgin 2.10.5
pidgin/pidgin 2.10.6
pidgin/pidgin 2.10.7
pidgin/pidgin 2.10.8
pidgin/pidgin < 2.10.9
Published Oct 29, 2014
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026