Bug 566104 – <dev-libs/libmaxminddb-1.1.2: Missing bounds checking and missing verification of data type

• Product: Gentoo Security
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Steffen Weber 2015-11-18 10:27:12 UTC]

libmaxminddb 1.1.2 has been released and contains security fixes.

Renaming libmaxminddb-1.1.1.ebuild to libmaxminddb-1.1.2.ebuild works for me.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Kristian Fiskerstrand (RETIRED) 2015-11-20 08:17:27 UTC]

All information is public, opening

[Comment 2 Kristian Fiskerstrand (RETIRED) 2015-11-20 08:19:42 UTC]

From ${URL}:
IMPORTANT: This release includes a number of important security fixes. Among these fixes is improved validation of the database metadata. Unfortunately, MaxMind GeoIP2 and GeoLite2 databases created earlier than January 28, 2014, had an invalid data type for the record_size in the metadata. Previously these databases worked on little endian machines with libmaxminddb but did not work on big endian machines. Due to increased safety checks when reading the file, these databases will no longer work on any platform. If you are using one of these databases, we recommend that you upgrade to the latest GeoLite2 or GeoIP2 database

[Comment 3 Kristian Fiskerstrand (RETIRED) 2015-11-20 08:28:54 UTC]

Seems someone took a fuzzer to it, based on https://github.com/maxmind/libmaxminddb/commit/51255f113fe3c7b63ffe957636a7656a3ff9d1ff setting rating for DoS vector for now

[Comment 4 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2015-11-21 05:05:16 UTC]

1.1.1 has been removed.
1.1.2 is in the tree.

No stable keywords.

[Comment 5 Steffen Weber 2015-11-21 12:13:31 UTC]

Thanks!

[Comment 6 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) 2016-03-29 09:46:55 UTC]

no vulnerable versions in tree.