CVE-2007-0159

Published: 10 January 2007

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.

Status

References

• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-412-1
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-0159
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian