CVE-2007-0159 Information

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.

Reference

http://arctic.org/~dean/patches/GeoIP-1.4.0-update-vulnerability.patch http://osvdb.org/31618 http://secunia.com/advisories/23880 http://secunia.com/advisories/23906 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:004 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21959 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-412-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0117 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0118 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31383