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over 2 years ago

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Disclosure

Jan 10, 2007

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Unknown

Solution

Unknown

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Description

(Description Provided by CVE) : 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.

Classification

Attack Type: Input Manipulation

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

CVE ID: 2007-0159 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 21959
Secunia Advisory ID: 23880 23906
ISS X-Force ID: 31383
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2007-0117 ADV-2007-0118
Other Advisory URL: http://arctic.org/~dean/patches/GeoIP-1.4.0-update-vulnerability.patch
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-412-1

Tools & Filters

	28001

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 6.4
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2007-01-10 | Disagree?

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