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CVE-2007-0159

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.4 Published: 2007-01-10 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Geoip Geoip

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References