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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-0159 |
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Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2007-0159 |
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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. |
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CVE Status: Candidate |
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References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/31383 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-412-1 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA23880 Secunia Advisory: SA23906 OSVDB 31618 MISC http://arctic.org/~dean/patches/GeoIP-1.4.0-update-vulnerability.patch MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:004 BID 21959 |
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