Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.840179
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-412-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'geoip' package(s) announced via the USN-412-1 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'geoip' package(s) announced via the USN-412-1 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: 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. Affected Software/OS: 'geoip' package(s) on Ubuntu 5.10, Ubuntu 6.06, Ubuntu 6.10. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 6.4 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-0159 BugTraq ID: 21959 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21959 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:004 http://arctic.org/~dean/patches/GeoIP-1.4.0-update-vulnerability.patch http://osvdb.org/31618 http://secunia.com/advisories/23880 http://secunia.com/advisories/23906 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-412-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0117 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0118 XForce ISS Database: geoip-geoipupdate-directory-traversal(31383) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31383
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