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CVE-2010-0013

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 12.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2010-01-09 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-22

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.

Affected products

• Adium: 1.3.8
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 11, 12
• Opensuse: from 11.0 through 11.2
• Pidgin: 2.6.4
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 4.0, 5.0
• SUSE Linux Enterprise: 11.0
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 10-sp2, 10-sp3

References

• 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

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