Fedora 7 Update: fail2ban-0.8.0-8.fc7

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-0138
2007-06-08 08:57:47.647086
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Name        : fail2ban
Product     : Fedora 7
Version     : 0.8.0
Release     : 8.fc7
Summary     : Ban IPs that make too many password failures
Description :
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.

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Update Information:

Improve filters for detection of ssh brute force attacks.
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ChangeLog:

* Sun Jun  3 2007 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net> - 0.8.0-8
- Also trigger on non-AllowUsers failures (Jonathan Underwood
  <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com>).
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #241695
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=241695
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Updated packages:

b5686cce56d7b3e99c6d6ed1b986537e07fb6461 fail2ban-0.8.0-8.fc7.noarch.rpm
ad4e0233bd928ea754d680ac6fc4f2e90919c3a3 fail2ban-0.8.0-8.fc7.src.rpm

This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program.  Use 'yum update
package-name' at the command line.  For more information, refer to 'Managing
Software with yum,' available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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