[oss-security] 20131222 Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 2826-1] denyhosts security updatemailing list
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/535 CVE-2013-6890
DenyHosts - 'regex.py' Remote Denial of Service
Record summary
CVE-2013-6890 has a selected CVSS score of 5.0; EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.
Description
denyhosts 2.6 uses an incorrect regular expression when analyzing authentication logs, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (incorrect block of IP addresses) via crafted login names.
Description source: CVE List
Exploitation context
Available material
- Catalogued exploits
- 1
Proofs of concept
1Catalogued exploits
ExploitDBDenyHosts - 'regex.py' Remote Denial of ServiceExploitDB exploitby Helmut GrohneNot analyzed1 file
References
556239Third-party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/56239 DSA-2826Vendor advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2826 bugzilla.redhat.com
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045982 nvd.nist.gov
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6890