Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
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.
Affected
arpwatch on Mandriva Linux 2011.0
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2012-2653 -
CVSS Base Score: 10.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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