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CVE-2014-3697

Publication date 29 October 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Negligible

Why this priority?

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
pidgin 14.10 utopic
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid Ignored

Notes


jdstrand

Windows only