Ubuntu Security Notice USN-412-1
23rd January, 2007
geoip vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 6.10
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
- 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
man-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 version:
- Ubuntu 6.10:
- geoip-bin 1.3.17-1ubuntu0.1
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:
- geoip-bin 1.3.14-2ubuntu0.1
- Ubuntu 5.10:
- geoip-bin 1.3.10-1ubuntu0.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.