openSUSE Recommended Update: fail2ban: Update to Version 0.8.14 ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-RU-2014:1117-1 Rating: low References: #878028 Affected Products: openSUSE 13.1 openSUSE 12.3 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that has one recommended fix can now be installed. Description: This update fixes the following issues with fail2ban: - Fixed build error under older systems. - Changes in spec file - update to 0.8.14 * minor fixes for claimed Python 2.4 and 2.5 compatibility * Handle case when inotify watch is auto deleted on file deletion to stop error messages * tests - fixed few "leaky" file descriptors when files were not closed while being removed physically * grep in mail*-whois-lines.conf now also matches end of line to work with the recidive filter - bnc#878028: added patch to fix default locations - update to 0.8.13: + Fixes: - rh#1046816: action firewallcmd-ipset had non-working actioncheck. Removed. - filter pureftpd - added _daemon which got removed. Added + New Features: - filter nagios - detects unauthorized access to the nrpe daemon (Ivo Truxa) - filter sendmail-{auth,reject} (jserrachinha and cepheid666 and fab23). + Enhancements: - filter asterisk now supports syslog format - filter pureftpd - added all translations of "Authentication failed for user" - filter dovecot - lip= was optional and extended TLS errors can occur. - split out nagios-plugins-fail2ban package - Add a new subpackage to install systemd drop-ins that couple SuSEfirewall2 and fail2ban. Added sfw-fail2ban.conf, f2b-restart.conf. Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 13.1: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2014-538 - openSUSE 12.3: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2014-538 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 13.1 (noarch): SuSEfirewall2-fail2ban-0.8.14-2.9.1 fail2ban-0.8.14-2.9.1 nagios-plugins-fail2ban-0.8.14-2.9.1 - openSUSE 12.3 (noarch): SuSEfirewall2-fail2ban-0.8.14-2.16.1 fail2ban-0.8.14-2.16.1 nagios-plugins-fail2ban-0.8.14-2.16.1 References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/878028