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."
Published: 2005-04-21
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 5.7% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2005-1064 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."
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Logwatch Logwatch
Redhat Enterprise Linux Linux Advanced Workstation
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T21:35:59.921Z

Reserved: 2005-04-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-1061

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-05-02T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2005-1061

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2004-10-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2005-1061 - Bugzilla

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