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CVE-2009-5023
Published: Jun 10, 2014
Modified: Aug 7, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/blob/sdist/0.8.5/ChangeLog
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GLSA-201406-03
vendor-advisory
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https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544232
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58841
third-party-advisory
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