Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package pidgin (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-PIDGIN-605355
- published19 Aug 2020
- disclosed29 Oct 2014
Introduced: 29 Oct 2014
CVE-2014-3697 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pidgin package and not the pidgin package as distributed by Debian.
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.