CVE-2005-1061 Denial of service in n/a
Attackers can crash the LogWatch parser by injecting specific strings into secure logs, preventing detection of malicious activity.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2005-1061?
CVE-2005-1061 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux, published on 21 Apr 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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."
Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-1061?
It affects 3 products.
Products include Logwatch Logwatch, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Redhat Linux Advanced Workstation.
How do I fix CVE-2005-1061?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2005-1061 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2005-1061 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in Redhat Enterprise Linux
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2005-1061, GHSA-3qhc-99ww-4gq4.