Pidgin Security Advisory
| Title | Pidgin uses clickable links to untrusted executables |
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| Date | 2011-08-20 |
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| CVE Name | CVE-2011-3185 |
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| Discovered By | James Burton, Insomnia Security |
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| Description | If a user clicks on a file:// URI in a received IM in Windows builds of Pidgin, Pidgin attempts to execute the file. This can be dangerous if the file:// URI is a path on a network share. |
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| Fixed in Revision | 4377067bda01 |
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| Fixed in Version | 2.10.0 |
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| Fix | Don't attempt to execute files when the user clicks a file:// URI. Instead, open a file browser at the file's location. |
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