CVE-2009-0362

fail2ban: remote DoS via crafted domain names

Published Feb 13, 2009 CVSS 2.0 · 4.0 Medium EPSS 1.3% KEV · Not listed
Description
filter.d/wuftpd.conf in Fail2ban 0.8.3 uses an incorrect regular expression that allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (forced authentication failures) via a crafted reverse-resolved DNS name (rhost) entry that contains a substring that is interpreted as an IP address, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-4321.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-0366 filter.d/wuftpd.conf in Fail2ban 0.8.3 uses an incorrect regular expression that allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (forced authentication failures) via a crafted reverse-resolved DNS name (rhost) entry that contains a substring that is interpreted as an IP address, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-4321.
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Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Sep 16, 2024, 8:26 PM
Reserved
Jan 29, 2009, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Feb 13, 2009, 1:30 AM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:04 PM
Severity
Important
Public date
Feb 4, 2009, 12:00 AM