Please Install the Updated Packages.

Logwatch is a customizable log analysis system. Logwatch parses through your system's logs for a given period of time and creates a report analyzing areas that you specify, in as much detail as you require. A flaw was found in the way Logwatch processed log files. If an attacker were able to create a log file with a malicious file name, it could result in arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the root user when that log file is analyzed by Logwatch. (CVE-2011-1018) Users of logwatch should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to resolve this issue.

logwatch on CentOS 5

• http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2011-April/017366.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25