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Secunia Advisory SA23880

GeoIP C API "GeoIP_update_database_general()" Directory Traversal
Secunia Advisory SA23880
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Release Date 2007-01-24
   
Popularity 5,434 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Manipulation of data
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
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Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
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Software:
GeoIP C API 1.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2007-0159 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description
Dean Gaudet has reported a vulnerability in GeoIP, which can be exploited by malicious people to overwrite arbitary files on a user's system.

The "GeoIP_update_database_general()" function does not correctly sanitise the filename returned from the update server. This can be exploited by e.g. a malicious update server via directory traversal attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the update.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.4.1.

Solution
Update to version 1.4.1.

Provided and/or discovered by
Dean Gaudet

Original Advisory
http://arctic.org/~dean/patches/GeoIP-1.4.0-update-vulnerability.patch

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