medium4.7
CVE-2009-5023
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 use…
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Fail2ban | Fail2ban | through 0.8.4 Versions 0.1.0, 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.3.0, 0.3.1 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://secunia.com/advisories/58841
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-03.xml
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544232
- https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/blob/sdist/0.8.5/ChangeLog
- http://secunia.com/advisories/58841
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-03.xml
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544232
- https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/blob/sdist/0.8.5/ChangeLog