Fedora 21 Update: fail2ban-0.9.3-1.fc21

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-15715
2015-10-14 23:00:41.814231
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Name        : fail2ban
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 0.9.3
Release     : 1.fc21
URL         : http://fail2ban.sourceforge.net/
Summary     : Daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors
Description :
Fail2Ban scans log files and bans IP addresses that makes too many password
failures. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address. These rules can
be defined by the user. Fail2Ban can read multiple log files such as sshd or
Apache web server ones.

Fail2Ban is able to reduce the rate of incorrect authentications attempts
however it cannot eliminate the risk that weak authentication presents.
Configure services to use only two factor or public/private authentication
mechanisms if you really want to protect services.

This is a meta-package that will install the default configuration.  Other
sub-packages are available to install support for other actions and
configurations.

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Update Information:

Update to 0.9.3 ============ IMPORTANT incompatible changes
----------------------------------------------    * filter.d/roundcube-auth.conf
- Changed logpath to 'errors' log (was 'userlogins')    * action.d/iptables-
common.conf      - All calls to iptables command now use -w switch introduced in
iptables 1.4.20 (some distribution could have patched their        earlier base
version as well) to provide this locking mechanism        useful under heavy
load to avoid contesting on iptables calls.        If you need to disable,
define 'action.d/iptables-common.local'        with empty value for 'lockingopt'
in `[Init]` section.    * mail-whois-lines, sendmail-geoip-lines and sendmail-
whois-lines      actions now include by default only the first 1000 log lines in
the emails.  Adjust <grepopts> to augment the behavior.  Fixes ------    *
reload in interactive mode appends all the jails twice (gh-825)    * reload
server/jail failed if database used (but was not changed) and      some jail
active (gh-1072)    * filter.d/dovecot.conf - also match unknown user in passwd-
file.      Thanks Anton Shestakov    * Fix fail2ban-regex not parsing
journalmatch correctly from filter config    * filter.d/asterisk.conf - fix
security log support for Asterisk 12+    * filter.d/roundcube-auth.conf      -
Updated regex to work with 'errors' log (1.0.5 and 1.1.1)      - Added regex to
work with 'userlogins' log    * action.d/sendmail*.conf - use LC_ALL
(superseeding LC_TIME) to override      locale on systems with customized LC_ALL
* performance fix: minimizes connection overhead, close socket only at
communication end (gh-1099)    * unbanip always deletes ip from database
(independent of bantime, also if      currently not banned or persistent)    *
guarantee order of dbfile to be before dbpurgeage (gh-1048)    * always set
'dbfile' before other database options (gh-1050)    * kill the entire process
group of the child process upon timeout (gh-1129).      Otherwise could lead to
resource exhaustion due to hanging whois      processes.    * resolve
/var/run/fail2ban path in setup.py to help installation      on platforms with
/var/run -> /run symlink (gh-1142)  New Features ------------------    * RETURN
iptables target is now a variable: <returntype>    * New type of operation:
pass2allow, use fail2ban for "knocking",      opening a closed port by swapping
blocktype and returntype    * New filters:      - froxlor-auth - Thanks Joern
Muehlencord      - apache-pass - filter Apache access log for successful
authentication    * New actions:      - shorewall-ipset-proto6 - using proto
feature of the Shorewall. Still requires        manual pre-configuration of the
shorewall. See the action file for detail.    * New jails:      - pass2allow-ftp
- allows FTP traffic after successful HTTP authentication  Enhancements
-------------------    * action.d/cloudflare.conf - improved documentation on
how to allow      multiple CF accounts, and jail.conf got new compound action
definition action_cf_mwl to submit cloudflare report.    * Check access to
socket for more detailed logging on error (gh-595)    * fail2ban-testcases man
page    * filter.d/apache-badbots.conf, filter.d/nginx-botsearch.conf - add
HEAD method verb    * Revamp of Travis and coverage automated testing    * Added
a space between IP address and the following colon      in notification emails
for easier text selection    * Character detection heuristics for whois output
via optional setting      in mail-whois*.conf. Thanks Thomas Mayer.      Not
enabled by default, if _whois_command is set to be
%(_whois_convert_charset)s (e.g. in action.d/mail-whois-common.local),      it
- detects character set of whois output (which is undefined by        RFC 3912)
via heuristics of the file command      - converts whois data to UTF-8 character
set with iconv      - sends the whois output in UTF-8 character set to mail
program      - avoids that heirloom mailx creates binary attachment for input
with        unknown character set
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update fail2ban' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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