[Bug 218824] New: CVE-2006-6301: denyhosts 2.5 hosts.deny DoS

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218824

           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@xxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: ville.skytta@xxxxxx
         QAContact: extras-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
                CC: extras-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,fedora-security-
                    list@xxxxxxxxxx


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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