Path Traversal in Pidgin

CVE-2014-3697

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.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.038 (89.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Pidgin — versions 2.10.0, 2.10.1, 2.10.2
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References