CVE-2010-0013 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2010-0013?

CVE-2010-0013 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 9 Jan 2010. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-0013?

It affects 7 products.

Products include Adium Adium, Fedoraproject Fedora, Opensuse Opensuse, Pidgin Pidgin, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Suse Linux Enterprise and 1 more.

How do I fix CVE-2010-0013?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2010-0013 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2010-0013 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

Other vulnerabilities in Fedoraproject Fedora

• CVE-2008-7190 Cross-site scripting in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2009-2694 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2008-2927 Integer overflow in n/a Medium 6.8
• CVE-2010-0277 Memory corruption in n/a Medium 5.0
• CVE-2009-3615 Denial of service in n/a Medium 5.0

All Fedoraproject Fedora vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2010-0013, GHSA-v6ph-x2c7-6g37, RHSA-2010:0044.