Vulnerability CVE-2005-1061


Published: 2005-05-02   Modified: 2012-02-12

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."

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Redhat -> Enterprise linux 
Redhat -> Linux advanced workstation 
Logwatch -> Logwatch 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla-old/show_bug.cgi?id=137502
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-364.html

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