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> That's a very very small list of vulnerabilities for such a widely used piece of software. They are schoolboy errors in a relatively trivial piece of softwar
by rlpb 3y ago
> That's a very very small list of vulnerabilities for such a widely used piece of software.
They are schoolboy errors in a relatively trivial piece of software that very well demonstrate the fundamental security flaw in its design.
> is thoroughly recommended
Recommended by whom? The Internet, or prominent experts in the field?
- 15457345234 3y ago> They are schoolboy errors in a relatively trivial piece of software that very well demonstrate the fundamental security flaw in its design. I read through the CVEs and they're not 'schoolboy errors' at all - in fact, the first one doesn't even refer to fail2ban itself but to a program being called by fail2ban. There's no fundamental security flaw in its design. > Recommended by whom? The Internet, or prominent experts in the field? It's recommended in several linux/unix books - physical books, written by experts - and in many blogs. So, both.