Absolute Path Traversal Vulnerability in Pidgin's untar_block Function

CVE-2014-3697 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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