cve-2012-5642
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-12-31 11:00
Modified
2024-08-06 21:14
Severity ?
Summary
server/action.py in Fail2ban before 0.8.8 does not properly handle the content of the matches tag, which might allow remote attackers to trigger unsafe behavior in a custom action file via unspecified symbols in this content.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00001.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00002.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=30193056
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:078
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/17/2
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447572
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887914
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/commit/83109bcPatch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://raw.github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/master/ChangeLog
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00001.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00002.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=30193056
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:078
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/17/2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447572
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887914
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/commit/83109bcPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://raw.github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/master/ChangeLog
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