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DenyHosts Denial of Service and Weakness
Secunia Advisory: SA23236
Release Date: 2006-12-06
Last Update: 2007-11-01
Popularity: 7,270 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Security Bypass
DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:DenyHosts 2.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Advisory Content (Page 2 of 3)[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

Solution:
Edit the regular expressions to ensure that log files are parsed properly.

Use another product.

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Tavis Ormandy
2) Jonathan Underwood

Changelog:
2006-12-08: Added CVE reference.
2007-01-04: Updated "Solution" section.
2007-06-07: Updated "Description" and "Solution" section and "Solution Status" based on information provided by Daniel Cid. Added link to "Original Advisory" section.
2007-08-15: Added CVE reference.
2007-11-01: Added weakness #2 to the advisory.

Original Advisory:
1) http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157163
http://www.ossec.net/en/attacking-loganalysis.html
2) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237449

Change Page:
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