CVE-2013-6486

Description

gtkutils.c in Pidgin before 2.10.8 on Windows allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs via a message containing a file: URL that is improperly handled during construction of an explorer.exe command. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-3185.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65189

http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=81

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00005.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00039.html

http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/b2571530fa8b

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3