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.
Published: 2009-02-13
Score: 4.0 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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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.
History

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Fail2ban Fail2ban
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-16T20:26:16.757Z

Reserved: 2009-01-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-0362

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-02-13T01:30:00.360

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2009-0362

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2009-02-04T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-0362 - Bugzilla

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