CVE-2007-0159 (GCVE-0-2007-0159)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-01-10 00:00
Modified
2024-08-07 12:12
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
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.
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