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title: "CVE-2007-0159\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2007-0159

Publication date 10 January 2007

Last updated 17 July 2025

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## 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.

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| geoip | 7.04 feisty | Fixed 1.3.17-1.1 |
| 6.10 edgy | Fixed 1.3.17-1ubuntu0.1 |
| 6.06 LTS dapper | Fixed 1.3.14-2ubuntu0.1 |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0159)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-0159)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2007-0159)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-0159)

### Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

+ [USN-412-1](https://usn.ubuntu.com/USN-412-1)
+ GeoIP vulnerability
+ 24 January 2007

### Other references

* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-0159>