CVE-2007-0159
N/A
Published: January 10, 2007 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:35 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorGeoip
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (10)
x_refsource_MISCPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://arctic.org/~dean/patches/GeoIP-1.4.0-update-vulnerability.patchVendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:004VDB Entryx_refsource_VUPEN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0117Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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