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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-0159
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2007-0159

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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

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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