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CVE-2007-0159
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
Impact Analysis
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..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- Medium
- Base Score
- 6.4/10
- Exploit Score
- 10/10
- Access Vector
- Network
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 4.9/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- None
- Availability Impact
- Partial
- Integrity Impact
- Partial
Products Affected
| CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:geoip:geoip:1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |
References
- http://arctic.org/~dean/patches/GeoIP-1.4.0-update-vulnerability.patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21959
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-412-1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23880
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23906
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:004
- http://osvdb.org/31618
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0118
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0117
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31383