cve-2009-5023
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-06-10 14:00
Modified
2024-08-07 07:24
Severity ?
Summary
The (1) dshield.conf, (2) mail-buffered.conf, (3) mynetwatchman.conf, and (4) mynetwatchman.conf actions in action.d/ in Fail2ban before 0.8.5 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files with predictable names, as demonstrated by /tmp/fail2ban-mail.txt.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/58841
secalert@redhat.comhttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-03.xml
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544232
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/blob/sdist/0.8.5/ChangeLog
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/58841
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-03.xml
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544232
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/blob/sdist/0.8.5/ChangeLog
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