oss-security - Re: CVE request - pidgin MSN arbitrary file upload

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Message-ID: <1824926997.992521262877409693.JavaMail.root@zmail01.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 10:16:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request - pidgin MSN arbitrary file upload

----- "Paul Aurich" <paul@...krain42.org> wrote:

> http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/events/3596.en.html
> 
> In Fabian's talk, he describes an issue where Pidgin's MSN prpl does not
> validate the filename received in a request for Pidgin to upload a custom
> emoticon to a third-party, allowing an attacker to download arbitrary
> files on the system via directory traversal.
> 
> This is fixed in source, but no release yet:
> http://d.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/c64a1adc8bda2b4aeaae1f273541afbc4f71b810

As this really needs an ID, please use CVE-2010-0013.

Thanks.

-- 
    JB

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