Fedora 12 Update: fail2ban-0.8.4-24.fc12

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-1908
2010-02-16 10:47:12
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Name        : fail2ban
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 0.8.4
Release     : 24.fc12
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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Update Information:

This updates closes some more leaked file descriptors that selinux detects.
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ChangeLog:

* Sun Feb 14 2010 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net> - 0.8.4-24
- Patch by Jonathan G. Underwood <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> to
  cloexec another fd leak.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #522767 - SELinux problems with fail2ban
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522767
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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 http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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