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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2014-2276
2014-08-20 22:26:26
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Name : fail2ban
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 0.8.14
Release : 1.el6
URL :
http://fail2ban.sourceforge.net/
Summary : Ban IPs that make too many password failures
Description :
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.
To use the hostsdeny and shorewall actions you must install tcp_wrappers
and shorewall respectively.
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Update Information:
Update to 0.8.14 (bug #1130706):
- minor fixes for claimed Python 2.4 and 2.5 compatibility
- Handle case when inotify watch is auto deleted on file deletion to stop error messages
- tests - fixed few "leaky" file descriptors when files were not closed while
being removed physically
- grep in mail*-whois-lines.conf now also matches end of line to work with the recidive
filter
- filters.d/sieve.conf - fixed typo in _daemon. Thanks Jisoo Park
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update fail2ban' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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