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CVE-2009-5023

Published: 10 June 2014

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.

Priority

Low

Status

Package Release Status
fail2ban
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
hardy Ignored
(end of life)
lucid Ignored
(end of life)
maverick Ignored
(end of life)
natty Ignored
(end of life)
oneiric Not vulnerable
(0.8.5-1)
precise Not vulnerable

quantal Not vulnerable

raring Not vulnerable

saucy Not vulnerable

upstream
Released (0.8.4+svn20110323-1)