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

1

Catalogued exploits

ExploitDBDenyHosts - 'regex.py' Remote Denial of ServiceExploitDB exploitby Helmut GrohneNot analyzed1 file
ExploitDB

PoC details

References

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