PT-2007-1643 · Maxmind · Geoip

Dean Gaudet · Published 2007-01-10 · Updated 2017-07-29 · CVE-2007-0159

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GeoIP version 1.4.0

Description The issue allows remote malicious update servers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the database filename. This is due to a directory traversal vulnerability in the GeoIP update database general function in libGeoIP/GeoIPUpdate.c. The vulnerability can be exploited when a request is made to app/update getfilename, which returns the database filename.

Recommendations For GeoIP version 1.4.0, as a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the GeoIP update database general function until a patch is available. Avoid using the update functionality that involves requesting filenames from potentially malicious update servers.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-0159

Affected Products

Geoip

References · 15

• http://arctic.org/~dean/patches/GeoIP-1.4.0-update-vulnerability.patch · Patch
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-412-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:004 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2007-0159 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-0159 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-0159 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2007-0159 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23880 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/21959 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31383 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0118 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0159 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23906 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/31618 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0117 · Note