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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 2, 2005· Updated Apr 16, 2026

CVE-2005-1061

CVE-2005-1061

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

5
  • Logwatch/Logwatch
    cpe:2.3:a:logwatch:logwatch:2.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • Red Hat/Enterprise Linux3 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1:*:advanced_server:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1:*:advanced_server:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1:*:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1:*:workstation:*:*:*:*:*
  • Red Hat/Linux Advanced Workstation
    cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux_advanced_workstation:2.1:*:itanium:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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