Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. 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+ -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. -- Fedora-security-list mailing list Fedora-security-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-security-list
