Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-0159 - Directory Traversal vulnerability in Geoip 1.4.0

047910
CVSS 6.4 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
geoip
nessus
NVD
Published: 2007-01-10
Updated: 2017-07-29

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Geoip
1

Nessus

NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
NASL idUBUNTU_USN-412-1.NASL
descriptionDean Gaudet discovered that the GeoIP update tool did not validate the filename responses from the update server. A malicious server, or man-in-the-middle system posing as a server, could write to arbitrary files with user privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id28001
published2007-11-10
reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2007-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/28001
titleUbuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : geoip vulnerability (USN-412-1)

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