CVEvulnerability
CVE-2005-1061
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2005-05-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
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."
Affected configurations
• logwatch logwatch 2.6.2
• redhat enterprise linux 2.1
• redhat linux advanced workstation 2.1
Related
Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)
- CWE-185 Incorrect Regular Expression weakness
References
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-364.html Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla-old/show_bug.cgi?id=137502 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-364.html Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla-old/show_bug.cgi?id=137502 bugzilla.redhat.com