A security issue has been found in arpwatch as packaged by SUSE. /var/lib/arpwatch is packaged as root:root. Once arpwatch was run with a unprivileged user the ownership is changed to the unprivileged user, which allows the user specified to escalate to root the next time arpwatch is started. This is due to a SUSE-specific patch, upstream is not affected.
A security issue has been found in arpwatch as packaged by SUSE. /var/lib/arpwatch is packaged as root:root. Once arpwatch was run with a unprivileged user the ownership is changed to the unprivileged user, which allows the user specified to escalate to root the next time arpwatch is started. This is due to a SUSE-specific patch, upstream is not affected.
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186240
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