[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 6 Update: fail2ban-0.8.10-1.el6

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2013-10445
2013-06-13 21:44:47
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Name        : fail2ban
Product     : Fedora EPEL 6
Version     : 0.8.10
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:

Fail2Ban 0.8.10 addresses a possible remote denial of service attack when using the supplied apache- filters.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #973756 - CVE-2013-2178 fail2ban: remote denial of service due to apache log parsing issue
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=973756
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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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