Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200702-05 (fail2ban)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200702-05. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

GLSA-200702-05 : Fail2ban: Denial of Service

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200702-05 Fail2ban: Denial of Service A flaw in the method used to parse log entries allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to forge authentication attempts from other hosts. Impact : A remote attacker can add arbitrary hosts to...

CVE-2006-6302

The CVE-2006-6302 entry concerns fail2ban 0.7.4 and earlier, which do not correctly parse sshd log files. This allows remote attackers to forge entries in the authentication log that result in adding arbitrary hosts to the /etc/hosts.deny block list, causing a denial of service. Affected componen...