CVE-2007-0159
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jan 10, 2007
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Jan 9, 2007
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- ADV-2007-0117vdb-entry
- geoip-geoipupdate-directory-traversal(31383)vdb-entry
- 21959vdb-entry
- 23880third-party-advisory
- ADV-2007-0118vdb-entry
- 23906third-party-advisory
- http://arctic.org/~dean/patches/GeoIP-1.4.0-update-vulnerability.patch
- 31618vdb-entry
- USN-412-1vendor-advisory
- MDKSA-2007:004vendor-advisory
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