cve/2013/CVE-2013-2178.md

### [CVE-2013-2178](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2178)
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### Description

The apache-auth.conf, apache-nohome.conf, apache-noscript.conf, and apache-overflows.conf files in Fail2ban before 0.8.10 do not properly validate log messages, which allows remote attackers to block arbitrary IP addresses via certain messages in a request.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/13/7
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/13/7

#### Github
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