[Bug 218824] New: CVE-2006-6301: denyhosts 2.5 hosts.deny DoS
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Summary: CVE-2006-6301: denyhosts 2.5 hosts.deny DoS
Product: Fedora Extras
Version: fc6
Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: normal
Component: denyhosts
AssignedTo: tibbs(a)math.uh.edu
ReportedBy: ville.skytta(a)iki.fi
QAContact: extras-qa(a)fedoraproject.org
CC: extras-qa(a)fedoraproject.org,fedora-security-
list(a)redhat.com
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2006-6301
"DenyHosts 2.5 does not properly parse sshd logs file, which allows remote
attackers to add arbitrary hosts to the /etc/hosts.deny file and cause a denial
of service by adding arbitrary IP addresses to the sshd log file, as
demonstrated by loggig in to ssh using a login name containing certain strings
with an IP address, which is not properly handled by a regular expression."
Based on version numbers, affects FE-3+ and EPEL-4+
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