CVE-2014-3697

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

http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=89

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00037.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00023.html

http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/68b8eb10977f

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3