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denyhosts: denial of service

Package(s):

denyhosts

CVE #(s):

Created:

June 21, 2007

Updated:

June 27, 2007

Description:

Version 2.6 of Denyhosts has a problem in the way it scans for "User from .." messages in the log. The message is detected anywhere in the log, not just in the middle of the "bad protocol version" log where it belongs. This can be used to cause a denial of service.

Alerts:

Fedora

FEDORA-2007-0589

2007-06-20

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