CVE-2010-0013: Adium

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 12.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Adium Adium: version 1.3.8 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 11 only; version 12 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: from 11.0, up to and including 11.2
• Pidgin Pidgin: version 2.6.4 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 4.0 only; version 5.0 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise: version 11.0 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Server: version 10 only

Published 2010-01-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.