Security Advisory

CVE-2007-0159

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2007-01-10 00:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 12:12:16

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

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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