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openSUSE Leap 15.3 openSUSE-SU-2021:2177-1 Important: arpwatch Escalation

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Calendar Grey July 11, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Resolves a critical vulnerability in arpwatch for openSUSE Leap 15.3, mitigating risks of local privilege elevation and bolstering system security.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for arpwatch fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2021-25321: Fixed local privilege escalation from runtime user to

root (bsc#1186240).

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2021-2177=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

arpwatch-2.1a15-5.12.1

arpwatch-debuginfo-2.1a15-5.12.1

arpwatch-debugsource-2.1a15-5.12.1

arpwatch-ethercodes-build-2.1a15-5.12.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-25321.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186240

Severity
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:2177-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 .

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