Updated fail2ban packages fix security issues

An update to fail2ban 0.8.13 has been released to fix security issues, amongst other bugfixes. fail2ban versions prior to 0.8.11 would allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause arbitrary IP addresses to be blocked by Fail2ban causing legitimate users to be blocked from accessing services...

MGASA-2014-0176 Updated fail2ban packages fix security issues

An update to fail2ban 0.8.13 has been released to fix security issues, amongst other bugfixes. fail2ban versions prior to 0.8.11 would allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause arbitrary IP addresses to be blocked by Fail2ban causing legitimate users to be blocked from accessing services...

Fedora 18 : fail2ban-0.8.8-1.fc18 (2012-20589)

Update to 0.8.8 CVE-2012-5642 Bug 887914 - Fixes : - Alan Jenkins - 8c38907 Removed 'POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT' from sshd filter to avoid banning due to misconfigured DNS. Close gh-64 - Yaroslav Halchenko - 83109bc IMPORTANT: escape the content of if used in custom action files since its value...

[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: fail2ban-0.8.3-18.fc9

Fail2ban scans log files like /var/log/pwdfail or /var/log/apache/errorlog and bans IP that makes too many password failures. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address...

[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: fail2ban-0.8.0-9.fc7

Fail2ban scans log files like /var/log/pwdfail or /var/log/apache/errorlog and bans IP that makes too many password failures. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address...