CVE-2005-1061
EPSS 3.1%
Description
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."
How to fix CVE-2005-1061
To remediate CVE-2005-1061, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/logwatch—upgrade to 5.0-1 or later
Is CVE-2005-1061 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 3.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 5.0-1