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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201607-16">
+ <title>arpwatch: Privilege escalation</title>
+ <synopsis>arpwatch is vulnerable to the escalation of privileges.</synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild"/>
+ <announced>2016-07-20</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2016-07-20</revised>
+ <bug>419375</bug>
+ <access>local, remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="net-analyzer/arpwatch" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">2.1.15-r8</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">2.1.15-r8</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>The ethernet monitor program; for keeping track of ethernet/ip address
+ pairings.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>Arpwatch does not properly drop supplementary groups.</p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="high">
+ <p>Attackers, if able to exploit arpwatch, could escalate privileges
+ outside of the running process.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All arpwatch users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --verbose --oneshot "&gt;=net-analyzer/arpwatch-2.1.15-r8"
+ </code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2012-2653">
+ CVE-2012-2653
+ </uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-03-19T12:49:20Z">b-man</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-07-20T12:02:59Z">b-man</metadata>
+</glsa>