Vulnerability CVE-2007-0159
Published: 2007-01-09   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.4/10
4.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Geoip -> Geoip 

 References:
http://arctic.org/~dean/patches/GeoIP-1.4.0-update-vulnerability.patch
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0118
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0117
http://osvdb.org/31618
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/31383
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-412-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21959
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:004
http://secunia.com/advisories/23906
http://secunia.com/advisories/23880
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