Pidgin Security Advisory

Title	Pidgin uses clickable links to untrusted executables
Date	2014-01-28
CVE Name	CVE-2013-6486
Discovered By	Originally by James Burton, Insomnia Security. Rediscovered by Yves Younan of Sourcefire VRT.
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. This was originally reported in CVE-2011-3185 in 2011 and we attempted to fix it then, but failed.
Fixed in Revision	b2571530fa8b
Fixed in Version	2.10.8
Fix	Don't attempt to execute files when the user clicks a file:// URI. Instead, open a file browser at the file's location.