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Fedora 18 : fail2ban-0.8.10-1.fc18 (2013-10806)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 67287

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fail2Ban 0.8.10 addresses a possible remote denial of service attack when using the supplied apache- filters.

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Solution

Update the affected fail2ban package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=973756

http://www.nessus.org/u?e4e3785c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 67287

File Name: fedora_2013-10806.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:fail2ban, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/14/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2178

BID: 56963

FEDORA: 2013-10806