CVE-2005-1061

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."

CVSS v2.0

5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

3.07% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 87th percentile

Published

2005-04-21

Updated

2024-08-07

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25465

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2005-1059
• CVE-2005-1070
• CVE-2005-1054
• CVE-2005-1071
• CVE-2005-1053
• CVE-2005-1073