Title: GeoIP GeoIPUpdate.C Directory Traversal Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
The 'geoip' application is an IP intellegence database that tracks internet vistors.
The application is prone to a directory-traversal vulnerability because it fails to proper sanitize user-input before returning a file. Specifically, this issue occurs because the application fails to sanitize the filename returned by the GET request '/app/update_getfilename?product_id=%s' An attacker's input would include specially crafted HTTP GET requests containing directory-traversal strings.
The attacker can exploit this vulnerability to retrieve arbitrary files from the vulnerable system. Information obtained may aid in further attacks.
This issue affects versions prior to 1.4.0.
Affected Products:
- MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 4.0
- MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 4.0.0 x86_64
- Maxmind geoip 1.3.10
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 5.10.0 amd64
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 5.10.0 i386
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 5.10.0 powerpc
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 5.10.0 sparc
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTS amd64
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTS i386
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTS powerpc
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTS sparc
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 6.10 amd64
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 6.10 i386
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 6.10 powerpc
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 6.10 sparc
References:
- Maxmind: geoip Homepage
- dean-maxmind.com@arctic.org: GeoIP 1.4.0 Vulnerability Update
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