Security Advisory

CVE-2013-6486

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2014-02-06 15:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 17:39:01
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

gtkutils.c in Pidgin before 2.10.8 on Windows allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs via a message containing a file: URL that is improperly handled during construction of an explorer.exe command. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-3185.