Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 12, 2012· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2012-2653
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.
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Affected products
1- cpe:2.3:a:lawrence_berkeley_national_laboratory:arpwatch:2.1a15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
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References
10- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082553.htmlnvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082565.htmlnvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082569.htmlnvd
- www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2481nvd
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisoriesnvd
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/24/12nvd
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/24/13nvd
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/24/14nvd
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/25/5nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-16nvd
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