| Name | CVE-2012-2653 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-2481-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 674715 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| arpwatch (PTS) | buster | 2.1a15-7 | fixed |
| bookworm, bullseye | 2.1a15-8 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 2.1a15-8.1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| arpwatch | source | squeeze | 2.1a15-1.1+squeeze1 | DSA-2481-1 | ||
| arpwatch | source | (unstable) | 2.1a15-1.2 | 674715 |
Debian build includes the vulnerable patch (in .diff.gz)