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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2979-1 fail2ban -- security update

Date Reported:

17 Jul 2014

Affected Packages:

fail2ban

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-7176, CVE-2013-7177.

More information:

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in Fail2ban, a solution to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors. When using Fail2ban to monitor Postfix or Cyrus IMAP logs, improper input validation in log parsing could enable a remote attacker to trigger an IP ban on arbitrary addresses, resulting in denial of service.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 0.8.6-3wheezy3.

For the testing distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 0.8.11-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 0.8.11-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your fail2ban packages.