CVE-2014-3697

Published: 29 October 2014

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.

Notes

Windows only

Status

References

• http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=89
• http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/68b8eb10977f
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3697
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian