CVE-2009-5023

Name	CVE-2009-5023
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs	544232

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
fail2ban (PTS)	bullseye	0.11.2-2	fixed
	bookworm	1.0.2-2	fixed
	forky, sid, trixie	1.1.0-8	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
fail2ban	source	squeeze	0.8.4-3+squeeze1
fail2ban	source	(unstable)	0.8.4+svn20110323-1	low		544232

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