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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-6301
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2006-6301

Description:
DenyHosts 2.5 does not properly parse sshd logs file, which allows remote attackers to add arbitrary hosts to the /etc/hosts.deny file and cause a denial of service by adding arbitrary IP addresses to the sshd log file, as demonstrated by logging in to ssh using a login name containing certain strings with an IP address, which is not properly handled by a regular expression.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/30761

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA23236
  Secunia Advisory: SA23603

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-01.xml

CONFIRM
  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157163

BID
  21468


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