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CVE-2005-1061
published 2005-05-02

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…

PriorityP418medium5CVSS 2.0
AVNACLAuNCNINAP
EXPLOIT
EPSS
3.07%
86.0th percentile
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

8 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianlogwatch< logwatch 5.0-1 (bookworm)logwatch 5.0-1 (bookworm)
logwatchlogwatch
logwatchlogwatch>= 0 < 5.0-15.0-1
logwatchlogwatch>= 0 < 5.0-15.0-1
logwatchlogwatch>= 0 < 5.0-15.0-1
logwatchlogwatch>= 0 < 5.0-15.0-1
redhatenterprise_linux
redhatlinux_advanced_workstation

CVSS provenance

nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
osv5.0MEDIUM
vendor_debian5.0MEDIUM
vendor_redhat5.0MEDIUM
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