Vulnerability in Geoip

CVE-2007-0159

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.

EPSS: 0.020 (79.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Geoip — versions 1.4.0
  • N/a — versions n/a

References