cve-2014-3697-00

Summary Malicious smiley themes could alter arbitrary files
Date 2014-10-22
CVE Number CVE-2014-3697
Discovered By Yves Younan of Cisco Talos
Fixed In Release 2.10.10

Description

A bug in the untar code on Windows could allow a malicious smiley theme to place a file anywhere on the file system, or alter an existing file when installing a smiley theme via drag and drop on Windows.

Mitigation

Fix the untar code to ensure all paths are relative.

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