{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2005-1061","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.\"","modified":"2026-09-08T06:47:26.133677958Z","published":"2005-05-02T04:00:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2005-1061"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-1061"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"logwatch","ecosystem":"Debian:12","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/logwatch?arch=source&distro=bookworm"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"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"}},{"package":{"name":"logwatch","ecosystem":"Debian:13","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/logwatch?arch=source&distro=trixie"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"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"}},{"package":{"name":"logwatch","ecosystem":"Debian:14","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/logwatch?arch=source&distro=forky"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"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"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}