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Debian DSA-2979-1 : fail2ban - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 76583

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in Fail2ban, a solution to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors. When using Fail2ban to monitor Postfix or Cyrus IMAP logs, improper input validation in log parsing could enable a remote attacker to trigger an IP ban on arbitrary addresses, resulting in denial of service.

Solution

Upgrade the fail2ban packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 0.8.6-3wheezy3.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/fail2ban

https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2979

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 76583

File Name: debian_DSA-2979.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/18/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:fail2ban, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/17/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-7176, CVE-2013-7177

BID: 65184, 65187

DSA: 2979