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."
2005-05-02T04:00:00.000
2025-04-03T01:03:51.193
Deferred
CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
10.0
2.9
Type | Vendor | Product | Version/Range | Vulnerable? |
---|---|---|---|---|
Application | logwatch | logwatch | 2.6.2 | Yes |
Operating System | redhat | enterprise_linux | 2.1 | Yes |
Operating System | redhat | enterprise_linux | 2.1 | Yes |
Operating System | redhat | enterprise_linux | 2.1 | Yes |
Operating System | redhat | linux_advanced_workstation | 2.1 | Yes |