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CVE-2005-1061

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2005-05-02 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Redhat Linux Advanced WorkstationLogwatch LogwatchRedhat Enterprise Linux

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References