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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2481-1 arpwatch security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2482-1 arpwatch security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2012-2639 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.
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Solution

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Workaround

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History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.01816}

epss

{'score': 0.01826}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T19:42:31.777Z

Reserved: 2012-05-14T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2012-2653

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2012-07-12T20:55:15.937

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2012-2653

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2012-05-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-2653 - Bugzilla

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