Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Fail2ban scans log files like /var/log/pwdfail or
/var/log/apache/error_log and bans IP that makes too many password failures. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address.
To use the hostsdeny and shorewall actions you must install tcp_wrappers and shorewall respectively.
Affected
fail2ban on Fedora 17
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2012-5642 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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