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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux up to 2.6 (Operating System) and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component Parser. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:
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."
The bug was discovered 04/19/2005. The weakness was disclosed 05/02/2005 with Red Hat as Bug 137502 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.redhat.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2005-1061 since 04/12/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 18094 (RHEL 2.1 : logwatch (RHSA-2005:364)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Red Hat Local Security Checks and running in the context l.
Upgrading to version 2.6-2 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (20201) and Tenable (18094).
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CPE 2.3
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Class: Denial of serviceCWE: CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 18094
Nessus Name: RHEL 2.1 : logwatch (RHSA-2005:364)
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Upgrade: Enterprise Linux 2.6-2
Timeline
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Sources
Vendor: redhat.comAdvisory: Bug 137502
Organization: Red Hat
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2005-1061 (🔍)
X-Force: 20201
Vulnerability Center: 7667 - DoS in LogWatch 2.1.1, 2.5, 2.6 via \x27/var/log/secure/\x27 File, Medium
SecurityFocus: 13273 - Logwatch Secure Script Denial Of Service Vulnerability
OSVDB: 15708 - LogWatch denial of service
Entry
Created: 03/10/2015 23:05Updated: 05/31/2019 16:43
Changes: 03/10/2015 23:05 (69), 05/31/2019 16:43 (7)
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