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DEBIAN-CVE-2009-5023

DEBIAN-CVE-2009-5023 PUBLISHED

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

VendorProductVersions
Debian:14fail2ban0, 0, 0
Debian:12fail2ban0, 0, 0
Debian:11fail2ban0, 0, 0
Debian:13fail2ban0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Jun 10, 2014 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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