Debian DSA-2481-1 : arpwatch - fails to drop supplementary groups

critical Nessus Plugin ID 59759

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

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.

Solution

Upgrade the arpwatch packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1a15-1.1+squeeze1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 59759

File Name: debian_DSA-2481.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 6/29/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:arpwatch

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/2/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2653

BID: 52504

DSA: 2481

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