LogWatch Secure Script Regular Expression Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2005-1061 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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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