{"id":"CVE-2007-0159","details":"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.","modified":"2026-04-10T03:37:57.631880Z","published":"2007-01-10T00:28:00Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/23880"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/23906"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:004"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-412-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0117"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0118"},{"type":"FIX","url":"http://arctic.org/~dean/patches/GeoIP-1.4.0-update-vulnerability.patch"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://osvdb.org/31618"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21959"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31383"}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}