-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2012-0423 2012-02-11 18:20:40 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : fail2ban Product : Fedora EPEL 6 Version : 0.8.4 Release : 28.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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This update addresses CVE-2009-5023 as per the issue being fixed in the mainline Fedora package. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #700768 - fail2ban: Use of insecure default temporary file when unbanning an IP [epel-6] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700768 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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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