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Project Summary

sshguard protects hosts from brute force attacks. It supports IPv6, whitelists and log authentication, interfaces with all the major firewalling systems, has a remarkably clever log analyzer, and is independent, fast and lightweight as it's written in C

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ipf ipfw iptables log_analysis monitoring netfilter pf protection security ssh tcp_wrappers

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BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Project Security

Vulnerabilities per Version ( last 10 releases )

There are no reported vulnerabilities

Project Vulnerability Report

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Vulnerability Exposure Index

Many reported vulnerabilities
Few reported vulnerabilities

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About Project Security

Languages

C
89%
shell script
8%
3 Other
3%

30 Day Summary

Jun 19 2026 — Jul 19 2026

12 Month Summary

Jul 19 2025 — Jul 19 2026
  • 20 Commits
    Down -13 (39%) from previous 12 months
  • 9 Contributors
    Up + 7 (350%) from previous 12 months