CVE-2014-3697
N/A
Published: October 29, 2014 at 10:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:08 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorPidgin
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (4)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00023.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00037.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=89Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-22
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