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Fedora 10 Moderate Update: 2009-1737 Remote DoS in Fail2ban

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Calendar Grey February 14, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Upgrade for fail2ban in Fedora 10 resolves external DoS vulnerability, enhances defense against authentication errors.
This updates fixes CVE-2009-0362

Summary

Fail2ban scans log files like /var/log/pwdfail or

/var/log/apache/error_log and bans IP that makes too many password

failures. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address.

This updates fixes CVE-2009-0362. See https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0362 for further details.

* Sat Feb 14 2009 Axel Thimm - 0.8.3-18

- Fix CVE-2009-0362 (Fedora bugs #485461, #485464, #485465, #485466).

* Mon Dec 1 2008 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams - 0.8.3-17

- Rebuild for Python 2.6

[ 1 ] Bug #485461 - CVE-2009-0362 fail2ban: remote DoS via crafted domain names

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485461

su -c 'yum update fail2ban' at the command line.

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

available at .

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

Fedora-package-announce mailing list

Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/

Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 10
Version: 0.8.3
Release: 18.fc10
Summary: Ban IPs that make too many password failures

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