CVE-2005-1061

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2004-10-28
Bugzilla:
1617603: CVE-2005-1061 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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."

Find out more about CVE-2005-1061 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 RHSA-2005:364 2005-04-19

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