Security Advisory

CVE-2009-5023

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2014-06-10 14:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 07:24:54
Assigner redhat
State 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.