1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-412-1

USN-412-1: GeoIP vulnerability

Publication date

24 January 2007

Overview

GeoIP vulnerability

Releases

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.

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.

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
6.10 edgy geoip-bin –  1.3.17-1ubuntu0.1
6.06 dapper geoip-bin –  1.3.14-2ubuntu0.1
5.10 breezy geoip-bin –  1.3.10-1ubuntu0.1

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