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Re:Analyzing the attacks on my website by bdamm on Saturday February 08, 2020 @09:34PM (#22280021)
fail2ban is saving my bacon right now.
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Re:Analyzing the attacks on my website by ryanlol on Saturday February 08, 2020 @09:39PM (#22280032)
From what? Generally fail2ban only exposes unnecessary attack surface while providing zero benefit.
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Re:Analyzing the attacks on my website by omgwtfbyobbq on Saturday February 08, 2020 @10:16PM (#22280176)
How does fail2ban expose attack surface?
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Re:Analyzing the attacks on my website by detaro on Saturday February 08, 2020 @10:23PM (#22280192)
It's code running on partially attacker-controlled inputs. It several times had vulnerabilities that allowed an attacker to trigger blocks for arbitrary IPs.
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Re:Analyzing the attacks on my website by cyc115 on Sunday February 09, 2020 @01:35AM (#22280741)
I remember there's a privEsc on old versions of fail2ban.
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Re:Analyzing the attacks on my website by omgwtfbyobbq on Monday February 10, 2020 @07:27PM (#22294888)
Do you remember roughly when the privEsc was?

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-5567...

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Re:Analyzing the attacks on my website by ryanlol on Sunday February 09, 2020 @11:39AM (#22282907)
Sketchy parsers operating on untrusted, unstructured log data.

fail2ban is worse than useless.

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