PT-2014-5458 · Pidgin+1 · Pidgin+1

Published 2014-10-22 · Updated 2014-11-20 · CVE-2014-3697

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Pidgin versions prior to 2.10.10

Description The issue is related to an absolute path traversal vulnerability in the untar block function. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a drive name in a tar archive of a smiley theme.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.10.10, update to version 2.10.10 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-2302

CVE-2014-3697

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Pidgin

References · 12

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00023.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3697 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3698 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3694 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3695 · Security Note
• http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=89 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00037.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/68b8eb10977f · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3697 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2014-2302 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3696 · Security Note
• https://packages.altlinux.org/ru/vuln/CVE-2014-3697 · Note