First published: Thu Apr 21 2005(Updated: )
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."
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
---|---|---|
Logwatch Logwatch | =2.6.2 | |
Redhat Enterprise Linux | =2.1 | |
Redhat Linux Advanced Workstation | =2.1 | |
Redhat Enterprise Linux | =2.1 | |
Redhat Enterprise Linux | =2.1 |
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