From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Fri Feb 16 2007 - 05:17:05 CST

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TITLE:
Gentoo update for fail2ban

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24184

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24184/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/339/

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for fail2ban. This fixes a vulnerability,
which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

For more information:
SA23237

SOLUTION:
Update to "net-analyzer/fail2ban-0.6.2" or later.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200702-05.xml

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA23237:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23237/

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