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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2005-04-21T04:00:00

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

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

Link: CVE-2005-1061

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

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

Modified: 2008-09-05T20:48:06.237

Link: CVE-2005-1061

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

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

Links: CVE-2005-1061 - Bugzilla