Package: denyhosts Version: 2.10-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
If you have IPTABLES support enabled in denyhosts, then it will happily add hosts to the iptables DROP rules, but it does not remove those entries when it garbage collects old blocks from hosts.deny (and friends), leaving them infinitely accruing. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.6 APT prefers stable APT policy: (1000, 'stable'), (900, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages denyhosts depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.22 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+nmu1 ii python 2.7.9-1 pn python:any <none> denyhosts recommends no packages. denyhosts suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/denyhosts.conf [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/denyhosts.conf' -- no debconf information