CVE request: fail2ban 0.8.8 fixes an input variable quoting flaw on <matches> content

[Vincent Danen <vdanen () redhat com>]

Could a CVE be assigned to this issue please?

The release notes for fail2ban 0.8.8 indicate:

   * [83109bc] IMPORTANT: escape the content of <matches> (if used in
     custom action files) since its value could contain arbitrary
     symbols.  Thanks for discovery go to the NBS System security
     team

This could cause issues on the system running fail2ban as it scans log
files, depending on what content is matched.  There isn't much more
detail about this issue than what is described above, so I think it may
largely depend on the type of regexp used (what it matches) and the
contents of the log file being scanned (whether or not an attacher could
insert something that could be used in a malicious way).

References:

https://raw.github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/master/ChangeLog
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=30193056
https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/commit/83109bc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887914
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447572

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Vincent Danen / Red Hat Security Response Team