REDHAT-BUG-680237

First published: Thu Feb 24 2011(Updated: )

A security flaw was found in the way logwatch, a log file analysis program, pre-processed log files, containing certain special characters in their names. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the privileged system user (root) by creating a specially-crafted log file, subsequently analyzed by the logwatch script. Upstream bug report: [1] <a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&amp;aid=3184223&amp;group_id=312875&amp;atid=1316824">http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&amp;aid=3184223&amp;group_id=312875&amp;atid=1316824</a> Related patch: [2] <a href="http://logwatch.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/logwatch?view=revision&amp;revision=26">http://logwatch.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/logwatch?view=revision&amp;revision=26</a> Other references: [3] <a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=4D604843.7040303%40mblmail.net&amp;forum_name=logwatch-devel">http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=4D604843.7040303%40mblmail.net&amp;forum_name=logwatch-devel</a>

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