Fedora 9: FEDORA-2009-1736 Critical: Fail2ban Remote DoS Threat

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

* Sun Aug 24 2008 Axel Thimm - 0.8.3-16

- Update to 0.8.3.

* Wed May 21 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway - 0.8.2-15

- fix license tag

* Thu Mar 27 2008 Axel Thimm - 0.8.2-14

- Close on exec fixes by Jonathan Underwood.

[ 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.

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