CVE-2012-2653
Summary
by MITRE
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.
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Analysis
by VulDB Data Team • 12/31/2024
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