-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 _______________________________________________________________________ Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2012:113 http://www.mandriva.com/security/ _______________________________________________________________________ Package : arpwatch Date : July 26, 2012 Affected: 2011. _______________________________________________________________________ Problem Description: A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in arpwatch: 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 (CVE-2012-2653). The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. _______________________________________________________________________ References: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2653 _______________________________________________________________________ Updated Packages: Mandriva Linux 2011: 51fd6414ebd6a2bd77d1de0ac97029cb 2011/i586/arpwatch-2.1a15-9.1-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm fbe904eb6330a599714c1a255a92739e 2011/SRPMS/arpwatch-2.1a15-9.1.src.rpm Mandriva Linux 2011/X86_64: 9f39bb549c746a74ff3d326d3424319b 2011/x86_64/arpwatch-2.1a15-9.1-mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm fbe904eb6330a599714c1a255a92739e 2011/SRPMS/arpwatch-2.1a15-9.1.src.rpm _______________________________________________________________________ To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you. All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing: gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98 You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact security_(at)_mandriva.com _______________________________________________________________________ Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFQESgXmqjQ0CJFipgRArbhAKDkVJ4d5Jtk/m+PDkzb8RKnrLLHNQCfU7pX O3QWLbuxwSxl1RQZQITPNRg= =KqoR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----