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Fail2ban 0.8.9 Denial Of Service

Fail2ban 0.8.9 Denial Of Service
Posted Jun 11, 2013
Authored by Krzysztof Katowicz-Kowalewski

Fail2ban version 0.8.9 suffers from a denial of service vulnerability.

tags | advisory, denial of service
SHA-256 | f76f159e42e87eaf9487498f0788795ab0ce200ba0820da608f8f5424a150a1f

Fail2ban 0.8.9 Denial Of Service

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Version 0.8.9 (latest) of Fail2ban allows to perform remote denial of service for arbitrary chosen IP address. Address listed on Fail2ban's whitelist are not affected. The vulnerability exists in Apache rules and it is caused by improper validation of a log file by regular expression. Malicious user can easily inject his own data to analyzed logs and deceive monitoring engine.

Affected files:
/filter.d/apache-auth.conf
/filter.d/apache-nohome.conf
/filter.d/apache-noscript.conf
/filter.d/apache-overflows.conf

Time frames:
01.06.2013 - Cyril Jaquier (contact section) has been informed about the vulnerability (no response)
08.06.2013 - The vulnerability has been released to the public.

More information, including proof of concept and patches is available here:
https://vndh.net/note:fail2ban-089-denial-service
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