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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2481-1 (arpwatch)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to arpwatch announced via advisory DSA 2481-1.
Insight
Insight
Steve Grubb from Red Hat discovered that a patch for arpwatch (as shipped at least in Red Hat and Debian distributions) in order to make it drop root privileges would fail to do so and instead add the root group to the list of the daemon uses. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1a15-1.1+squeeze1. For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1a15-1.2. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1a15-1.2.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your arpwatch packages.