CVE-2010-0013 Information

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.

Reference

http://d.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/3d02401cf232459fc80c0837d31e05fae7ae5467 http://d.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/4be2df4f72bd8a55cdae7f2554b73342a497c92f http://d.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/c64a1adc8bda2b4aeaae1f273541afbc4f71b810 http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/3d02401cf232459fc80c0837d31e05fae7ae5467/with/c64a1adc8bda2b4aeaae1f273541afbc4f71b810/libpurple/protocols/msn/slp.c http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/events/3596.en.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/033771.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/033848.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html http://secunia.com/advisories/37953 http://secunia.com/advisories/37954 http://secunia.com/advisories/37961 http://secunia.com/advisories/38915 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-277450-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1022203.1-1 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:085 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/02/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/07/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/07/2 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3662 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3663 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1020 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552483 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10333 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A17620