CVE-2005-1061

The secure script in LogWatch before 2.6-2 allows attackers to prevent LogWatch from detecting malicious activity via certain strings in the secure file that are later used as part of a regular expression, which causes the parser to crash, aka "logwatch log processing regular expression DoS."

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2005-05-02

Last modified

2024-08-07

Affected products

• Logwatch (Logwatch)
• Enterprise Linux (Redhat)
• Linux Advanced Workstation (Redhat)

References

• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-364.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla-old/show_bug.cgi?id=137502