Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2007-0159 First vendor Publication 2007-01-09
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2024-11-21

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.4 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 4.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0159

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-03-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for geoip vulnerability USN-412-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_412_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
31618 GeoIP GeoIPUpdate.c GeoIP_update_database_general Traversal Arbitrary File Ov...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2007-11-10 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-412-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

http://arctic.org/~dean/patches/GeoIP-1.4.0-update-vulnerability.patch
http://osvdb.org/31618
http://secunia.com/advisories/23880
http://secunia.com/advisories/23906
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:004
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21959
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-412-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0117
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0118
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31383
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