CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-0159

6.4 MEDIUM Published 2007-01-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-01-10
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

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.

Affected configurations

• geoip geoip 1.4.0

References