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CVE-2005-1061

N/A
Published: April 21, 2005 at 04:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:12 PM UTC
3 products affected across 2 vendorsEnterprise LinuxLinux Advanced WorkstationLogwatch

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (2)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-364.html
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla-old/show_bug.cgi?id=137502

CVSS

5MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other

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