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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2012-0431
2012-02-11 18:21:01
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Name : fail2ban
Product : Fedora EPEL 5
Version : 0.8.4
Release : 29.el5
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.
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Update Information:
This update addresses CVE-2009-5023 as per the issue being fixed in the mainline Fedora
package.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #700767 - fail2ban: Use of insecure default temporary file when unbanning an
IP [epel-5]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700767
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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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