Description
arpwatch 2.1a15, as used by Red Hat, Debian, Fedora, and possibly others, does not properly drop supplementary groups, which might allow attackers to gain root privileges by leveraging other vulnerabilities in the daemon.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/25/5 ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082569.html ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/24/13 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/24/12 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2481 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/24/14 ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:113 ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082565.html ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082553.html ↗
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-16 ↗