PT-2013-2204 · Pidgin+1 · Libpurple+2

Published 2013-02-16 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2013-0271

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Pidgin versions prior to 2.10.7

Description The issue allows remote attackers to create or overwrite files via a crafted pathname, specifically in the MXit protocol plugin in libpurple.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.10.7, update to version 2.10.7 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-0271

OPENSUSE-SU-2013_0405-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2013_0511-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10432-1

SUSE-SU-2013_0388-1

Affected Products

Pidgin

Suse

Libpurple

References · 26

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-0274 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-0273 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-03/msg00003.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=65 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-0271 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1746-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-0272 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-03/msg00006.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-0271 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-0271 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-0271 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0271 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/804742 · Note
• http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0273.html · Note
• https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/THQFUPHBYHL3L7TLA6ZHYS35RAWSTOYZ · Note