CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-3697

6.4 MEDIUM Published 2014-10-29 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-10-29
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-22

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.

Affected configurations

• pidgin pidgin (<= 2.10.9) • 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

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References