CVE-2013-2178

The apache-auth.conf, apache-nohome.conf, apache-noscript.conf, and apache-overflows.conf files in Fail2ban before 0.8.10 do not properly validate log messages, which allows remote attackers to block arbitrary IP addresses via certain messages in a request.

• How can I get the fixes?
• What do statuses mean?

References

• MITRE
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Other references

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/13
• https://vndh.net/note:fail2ban-089-denial-service
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-2178