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CVE-2005-1061

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

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 products

• Logwatch: 2.6.2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 2.1
• RedHat Linux Advanced Workstation: 2.1

References

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

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