Gentoo GLSA-200702-05 Critical: Fail2ban Denial Of Service Threat

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200702-05 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Fail2ban: Denial of Service Date: February 16, 2007 Bugs: #157166 ID: 200702-05

Synopsis ======= A flaw in Fail2ban may allow remote attackers to deny access to arbitrary hosts.
Background ========= Fail2ban monitors log files for failed authentication attempts and can block hosts responsible for repeated attacks.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-analyzer/fail2ban < 0.6.2 >= 0.6.2
========== A flaw in the method used to parse log entries allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to forge authentication attempts from other hosts.
Impact ===== A...