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<glsa id="201607-16">
  <title>arpwatch: Privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>arpwatch is vulnerable to the escalation of privileges.</synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild"/>
  <announced>2016-07-20</announced>
  <revised count="1">2016-07-20</revised>
  <bug>419375</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-analyzer/arpwatch" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.1.15-r8</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.1.15-r8</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>The ethernet monitor program; for keeping track of ethernet/ip address
      pairings.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Arpwatch does not properly drop supplementary groups.</p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>Attackers, if able to exploit arpwatch, could escalate privileges
      outside of the running process.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All arpwatch users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --verbose --oneshot "&gt;=net-analyzer/arpwatch-2.1.15-r8"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2012-2653">
      CVE-2012-2653
    </uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-03-19T12:49:20Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-07-20T12:02:59Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>
