MOABI : Continuous Software Improvement

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.
Impact	CVSS v2 : 4.7 MEDIUM
Type	CWE-59
Attack Vector	CVSSv2 Vector : AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N
Quick links	CVE, NVD, CERT, Metasploit, Exploit-db, Fulldisc, Bugtraq, Microsoft, Red Hat, Debian, GitHub code/issues, Google
References	http://secunia.com/advisories/58841 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-03.xml https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544232 https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/blob/sdist/0.8.5/ChangeLog