DEBIAN-CVE-2005-1061

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-1061
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2005-1061.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2005-1061
Upstream
Published
2005-05-02T04:00:00Z
Modified
2025-11-19T01:19:04.713709Z
Summary
[none]
Details

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."

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / logwatch

Package

Name
logwatch
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/logwatch?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2005-1061.json"

Debian:12 / logwatch

Package

Name
logwatch
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/logwatch?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2005-1061.json"

Debian:13 / logwatch

Package

Name
logwatch
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/logwatch?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2005-1061.json"

Debian:14 / logwatch

Package

Name
logwatch
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/logwatch?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2005-1061.json"