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oval:org.secpod.oval:def:1600322
The apache-auth.conf, apache-nohome.conf, apache-noscript.conf, and apache-overflows.conf files in Fail2ban before 0.8.10 do not properly validate log messages, which allows remote attackers to block arbitrary IP addresses via certain messages in a request. oval:org.secpod.oval:def:105473 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. oval:org.secpod.oval:def:601054 Krzysztof Katowicz-Kowalewski discovered a vulnerability in fail2ban, a log monitoring and system which can act on attack by preventing hosts to connect to specified services using the local firewall. When using fail2ban to monitor Apache logs, improper input validation in log parsing could enable a ... |
