Package name geoip
Date January 8th, 2007
Advisory ID MDKSA-2007:004
Affected versions CS4.0

Problem Description

Dean Gaudet discovered the geoipupdate utility fails to do sanity
checking on the filename returned by "GET
/app/update_getfilename?product_id=%s".

Updated packages are patched to address this issue.

Updated Packages

Corporate Server 4.0

 fa1f121647c2537c612bd06cb696bf45  corporate/4.0/i586/geoip-1.4.0-2.1.20060mlcs4.i586.rpm
 b7121479dd6061d651e1596d6d088742  corporate/4.0/i586/libgeoip1-1.4.0-2.1.20060mlcs4.i586.rpm
 4672680cd19c237b0972c31428b5643d  corporate/4.0/i586/libgeoip1-devel-1.4.0-2.1.20060mlcs4.i586.rpm
 e5df2bdfcdcf1da47ff30756fe6515cb  corporate/4.0/i586/libgeoipupdate0-1.4.0-2.1.20060mlcs4.i586.rpm 
 2ebfd111dd8511dc3cec4ade7ce39f73  corporate/4.0/SRPMS/geoip-1.4.0-2.1.20060mlcs4.src.rpm

Corporate Server 4.0/X86_64

 fee7fd2c73be1c3a8b86c83e9b614192  corporate/4.0/x86_64/geoip-1.4.0-2.1.20060mlcs4.x86_64.rpm
 0232c0ff1b9463ccddb155de4095fd47  corporate/4.0/x86_64/lib64geoip1-1.4.0-2.1.20060mlcs4.x86_64.rpm
 a29ebe06132643a78ae9948fff1eb0bd  corporate/4.0/x86_64/lib64geoip1-devel-1.4.0-2.1.20060mlcs4.x86_64.rpm
 97ef3b059e9771b7c0783c66f0106f29  corporate/4.0/x86_64/lib64geoipupdate0-1.4.0-2.1.20060mlcs4.x86_64.rpm 
 2ebfd111dd8511dc3cec4ade7ce39f73  corporate/4.0/SRPMS/geoip-1.4.0-2.1.20060mlcs4.src.rpm

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0159
http://arctic.org/~dean/patches/GeoIP-1.4.0-update-vulnerability.patch

Upgrade

To upgrade automatically, use MandrivaUpdate.


Verification

Please verify the update prior to upgrading to ensure the integrity of the downloaded package. You can do this with the command :

		rpm --checksig package.rpm
		

You can get the GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team to verify the GPG signature of each RPM.

If you use MandrivaUpdate, the verification of md5 checksum and GPG signature is performed automatically for you.