CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-2765

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2007-05-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-05-18
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

blockhosts.py in BlockHosts before 2.0.3 does not properly parse daemon log files, which allows remote attackers to add arbitrary deny entries to the /etc/hosts.allow file and cause a denial of service by adding arbitrary IP addresses to a daemon log file, as demonstrated by logging in through ssh using a login name containing certain strings with an IP address, which is not properly handled by a regular expression, a related issue to CVE-2006-6301.

Affected configurations

• ac zoom blockhosts (<= 2.0.2)

References