openSUSE Security Update: arpwatch (CVE-2012-2653) ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2012:0915-1 Rating: moderate References: #764521 Cross-References: CVE-2012-2653 Affected Products: openSUSE 12.1 openSUSE 11.4 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available. Description: Changes in arpwatch: - arpwatch-2.1a11-drop-privs.dif: call initgroups() with pw->pw_gid, not NULL, to not have groupid 0 initialized. (bnc#764521, CVE-2012-2653) Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 12.1: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2012-439 - openSUSE 11.4: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2012-439 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 12.1 (i586 x86_64): arpwatch-2.1a15-144.4.1 arpwatch-debuginfo-2.1a15-144.4.1 arpwatch-debugsource-2.1a15-144.4.1 arpwatch-ethercodes-build-2.1a15-144.4.1 - openSUSE 11.4 (i586 x86_64): arpwatch-2.1a15-143.1 arpwatch-debuginfo-2.1a15-143.1 arpwatch-debugsource-2.1a15-143.1 arpwatch-ethercodes-build-2.1a15-143.1 References: http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-2653.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/764521