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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2012-13786
2012-12-18 00:31:31
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Name : fail2ban
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 0.8.8
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.
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Update Information:
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 <matches> (if used in
custom action files) since its value could contain arbitrary
symbols. Thanks for discovery go to the NBS System security
team
* [b159eab] do not enable pyinotify backend if pyinotify < 0.8.3
* [37a2e59] store IP as a base, non-unicode str to avoid spurious messages
in the console. Close gh-91
- New features:
David Engeset
* [2d672d1,6288ec2] 'unbanip' command for the client + avoidance of touching
the log file to take 'banip' or 'unbanip' in effect. Close gh-81,
gh-86
Yaroslav Halchenko
- Enhancements:
* [2d66f31] replaced uninformative "Invalid command" message with warning
log
exception why command actually failed
* [958a1b0] improved failregex to "support" auth.backend =
"htdigest"
* [9e7a3b7] until we make it proper module -- adjusted sys.path only if
system-wide run
* [f52ba99] downgraded "already banned" from WARN to INFO level. Closes
gh-79
* [f105379] added hints into the log on some failure return codes (e.g. 0x7f00
for this gh-87)
* Various others: travis-ci integration, script to run tests
against all available Python versions, etc
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #887914 - CVE-2012-5642 fail2ban: does not escape the content of
<matches>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887914
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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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