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Adding a little bit of context to the description above. We have the same version of geoipupdate in RHEL8 as we have in RHEL7 so the patch from Robert works for us here as well. I see little risk doing a z-stream for this package. Other option is not fixing this but actually leaving the package broken and unusable for the rest of RHEL7 lifetime which would not be good.

Hi Robert,
even though we have the same version here as in RHEL8 and I've tried the patched version and it seems to work, I would be much calmer if you could just give this one final go for RHEL7:

https://people.redhat.com/mruprich/geoipupdate-2.5.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm

Let me know if that works and than I will fix this for RHEL7 as well.

Regards,
Michal

Hello Michal, I've tested the RPM from comment #3: It works as expected, with the (new) hashed license keys, but also with the old (unhashed) ones. For me the behaviour is the same like in the RHEL 8 build.

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (geoipupdate bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2023:3486