[ MDVSA-2010:002 ] pidgin

[dude67]

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Package : pidgin
Date : January 11, 2010
Affected: 2010.0
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Problem Description:

A security vulnerability has been identified and fixed in pidgin:

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 (CVE-2010-0013).

This update provides pidgin 2.6.5, which is not vulnerable to this
issue.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2010-0013
http://pidgin.im/news/security/
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