CVE-2007-0159

MediumCVSS 6.4/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 6.4/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jan 10, 2007
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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