Security Advisory

CVE-2013-6890

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-12-23 22:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 17:53:44
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

denyhosts 2.6 uses an incorrect regular expression when analyzing authentication logs, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (incorrect block of IP addresses) via crafted login names.