{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "secalert@redhat.com", "ID": "CVE-2009-5023", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "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." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/blob/sdist/0.8.5/ChangeLog", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/blob/sdist/0.8.5/ChangeLog" }, { "name": "GLSA-201406-03", "refsource": "GENTOO", "url": "http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-03.xml" }, { "name": "https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544232", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544232" }, { "name": "58841", "refsource": "SECUNIA", "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/58841" } ] } }