CVE-2005-1061 Information

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.\

Reference

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-364.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla-old/show_bug.cgi?id=137502