CVE-2007-0159

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the GeoIP_update_database_general function in libGeoIP/GeoIPUpdate.c in GeoIP 1.4.0 allows remote malicious update servers (possibly only update.maxmind.com) to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the database filename, which is returned by a request to app/update_getfilename.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31383

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0118

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0117

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-412-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21959

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:004

http://secunia.com/advisories/23906

http://secunia.com/advisories/23880

http://osvdb.org/31618

http://arctic.org/~dean/patches/GeoIP-1.4.0-update-vulnerability.patch

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3