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CVE-2007-0159

Published: Jan 10, 2007 | Modified: Jul 29, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
6.4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-0159
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Geoip Geoip 1.4.0 (including) 1.4.0 (including)

References

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