Hi.
There is a security bug in package 'logwatch'.

This information is from 'oss-security'.

This bug is public.

There is no coordinated release date (CRD) set.

CVE number: CVE-2011-1018
CVE description: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 8.5 (important) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)


Original posting:



CVE-2011-1018

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Betreff: [oss-security] CVE Request -- logwatch: Privilege escalation due improper sanitization of special characters in log file names
Datum: Donnerstag 24 Februar 2011
Von: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@redhat.com>
An: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@linus.mitre.org>

Hello Josh, Steve, vendors,

   a security flaw was found in the way logwatch, a log file
   analysis program, pre-processed log files, containing certain
   special characters in their names. A remote attacker could
   use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges
   of the privileged system user (root) by creating a
   specially-crafted log file, subsequently analyzed by the
   logwatch script.

   Upstream bug report:
   [1] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3184223&group_id=312875&atid=1316824

   Related patch:
   [2] http://logwatch.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/logwatch?view=revision&revision=26

   Other references:
   [3] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=4D604843.7040303%40mblmail.net&forum_name=logwatch-devel
   [4] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680237

Could you allocate a CVE id for this issue?

Thanks && Regards, Jan.
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Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team

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