Re: CVE request - pidgin MSN arbitrary file upload

[Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>]

----- "Paul Aurich" <paul () darkrain42 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