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USN-412-1: GeoIP vulnerability

24 January 2007

GeoIP vulnerability

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Details

Dean Gaudet discovered that the GeoIP update tool did not validate the
filename responses from the update server. A malicious server, or
machine-in-the-middle system posing as a server, could write to arbitrary
files with user privileges.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 6.10
  • geoip-bin - 1.3.17-1ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 6.06
  • geoip-bin - 1.3.14-2ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 5.10
  • geoip-bin - 1.3.10-1ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References