Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in slp.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin 2.6.4 and Adium 1.3.8 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in an application/x-msnmsgrp2p MSN emoticon (aka custom smiley) request, a related issue to CVE-2004-0122. NOTE: it could be argued that this is resultant from a vulnerability in which an emoticon download request is processed even without a preceding text/x-mms-emoticon message that announced availability of the emoticon.
CVSS breakdown
CVSS 3.1
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Affected products
- adium / adium1.3.8 – 1.3.8
- fedoraproject / fedora11 – 11
- fedoraproject / fedora12 – 12
- openSUSE / opensuse11.0 – 11.2
- Pidgin / Pidgin2.6.4 – 2.6.4
- RedHat / enterprise_linux5.0 – 5.0
- RedHat / enterprise_linux4.0 – 4.0
- SUSE / linux_enterprise11.0 – 11.0
- SUSE / linux_enterprise_server10 – 10
- SUSE / linux_enterprise_server10 – 10
References
- MAILING_LISThttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/02/1
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/37953
- MISChttp://d.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/3d02401cf232459fc80c0837d31e05fae7ae5467
- MISChttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552483
- MISChttp://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-277450-1
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/37954
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:085
- MAILING_LISThttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/07/1
- MISChttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17620
- MISChttp://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1022203.1-1
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3663
- MISChttp://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/3d02401cf232459fc80c0837d31e05fae7ae5467/with/c64a1adc8bda2b4aeaae1f273541afbc4f71b810/libpurple/protocols/msn/slp.c
- MAILING_LISThttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/033771.html
- MAILING_LISThttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/033848.html
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1020
- MAILING_LISThttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html
- MISChttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10333
- MISChttp://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/events/3596.en.html
- MISChttp://d.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/4be2df4f72bd8a55cdae7f2554b73342a497c92f
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3662
- MISChttp://d.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/c64a1adc8bda2b4aeaae1f273541afbc4f71b810
- MAILING_LISThttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/07/2
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/37961
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/38915