USN-412-1: GeoIP vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 6.10
• Ubuntu 6.06
• Ubuntu 5.10

Details

Dean Gaudet discovered that the GeoIP update tool did not validate the
filename responses from the update server. A malicious server, or
machine-in-the-middle system posing as a server, could write to arbitrary
files with user privileges.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 6.10

• geoip-bin - 1.3.17-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 6.06

• geoip-bin - 1.3.14-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 5.10

• geoip-bin - 1.3.10-1ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2007-0159