arpwatch: Root privilege escalation

Background The ethernet monitor program; for keeping track of ethernet/ip address pairings. Description It was discovered that Gentoo’s arpwatch ebuild made excessive permission operations on its data directories, possibly changing ownership of unintended files. This only affects OpenRC systems, ...

arpwatch: Privilege escalation

Background The ethernet monitor program; for keeping track of ethernet/ip address pairings. Description Arpwatch does not properly drop supplementary groups. Impact Attackers, if able to exploit arpwatch, could escalate privileges outside of the running process. Workaround There is no known...