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Debian DSA-1456-1 Critical: Fail2ban Denial Of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey January 9, 2008
Scroller Debian
Debian releases an update for fail2ban to fix a vulnerability that could lead to a denial of service caused by incorrect handling of log files by the application.
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Summary


For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.7.5-2etch1.

The old stable distribution (sarge) doesn't contain fail2ban.

We recommend that you upgrade your fail2ban package.

Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian 4.0 (stable)
- -------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 704 67efd3e859d89b4b2d2e527ff09ac659
Size/MD5 checksum: 21899 c1f185e48d340020de0651962fc34402
Size/MD5 checksum: ...

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