oss-security - CVE Request -- fail2ban -- Use of insecure default temporary file when unbanning an IP (tmpfile = /tmp/fail2ban-mail.txt)

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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:02:04 +0200
From: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>
To: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
CC: oss-security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>,
        Cyril Jaquier: <cyril.jaquier@...l2ban.org>,
        Tomasz Papszun <tomek@...z.tpsa.pl>,
        Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@...russian.com>
Subject: CVE Request -- fail2ban -- Use of insecure default temporary file
 when unbanning an IP (tmpfile = /tmp/fail2ban-mail.txt)

Hello Josh, Steve, vendors,

   It was found that fail2ban IPs banner used insecure default temporary file
when unbanning an IP address. A local attacker could use this flaw to conduct
symlink attacks in order to gain access to sensitive information or potentially
to overwrite arbitrary file on the system.

References:
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544232
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700763

Patch applied by Debian distribution:
[3] http://git.onerussian.com/?p=deb/fail2ban.git;a=commitdiff;h=ea7d352616b1e2232fcaa99b11807a86ce29ed8b

Could you allocate a CVE id for this? (Note: It should CVE-2009-* identifier)

Thank you & Regards, Jan.
--
Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team

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