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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2014-1985
2014-07-22 17:11:42
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Name : fail2ban
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 0.8.13
Release : 2.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 0.8.13
- Use upstream's logrotate script (bug #891798)
- Re-enable sshd-iptables by default
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #891798 - fail2ban logrotate script is either useless or mangles up the
setting of fail2ban's logtarget
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891798
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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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