CVE-2014-3697

Published Oct 29, 2014

Last updated 10 years ago

Overview

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.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
6.4
Impact score
4.9
Exploitability score
10
Vector string
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-22

Social media

Hype score
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Configurations