The vulnerability of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system allows a remote attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information.

The vulnerability of the logwatch-7.3.6 package for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system can lead to violations of confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely...

Fedora 13 : logwatch-7.3.6-55.fc13 (2011-2318)

This update fixes CVE-2011-1018: Privilege escalation due improper sanitization of special characters in log file names Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and...

CVE-2011-1018

CVE-2011-1018 affects Logwatch 7.3.6 (logwatch.pl) where remote attackers can execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a log file name, demonstrated via a crafted Samba username. Multiple advisories (RHEL/Oracle/OpenSUSE/MiracleLinux, CentOS/Scientific Linux/OpenVAS) reference this ...