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tcptraceroute Failure To Relinquish Root Privileges Weakness

Solution:
Debian has released an advisory (DSA 330-1) and fixes to address this issue. Links to fixed packages can be found in the advisory.

Gentoo Linux has released an advisory. Users who have installed net-analyzer/tcptraceroute are advised to upgrade to tcptraceroute-1.4-r1 by issuing the following commands:

emerge sync
emerge tcptraceroute
emerge clean


tcptraceroute tcptraceroute 1.2

• Debian tcptraceroute_1.2-2_alpha.deb
  Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcptraceroute/tcptracer oute_1.2-2_alpha.deb


• Debian tcptraceroute_1.2-2_arm.deb
  Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcptraceroute/tcptracer oute_1.2-2_arm.deb


• Debian tcptraceroute_1.2-2_hppa.deb
  Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcptraceroute/tcptracer oute_1.2-2_hppa.deb


• Debian tcptraceroute_1.2-2_i386.deb
  Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcptraceroute/tcptracer oute_1.2-2_i386.deb


• Debian tcptraceroute_1.2-2_ia64.deb
  Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcptraceroute/tcptracer oute_1.2-2_ia64.deb


• Debian tcptraceroute_1.2-2_m68k.deb
  Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcptraceroute/tcptracer oute_1.2-2_m68k.deb


• Debian tcptraceroute_1.2-2_mips.deb
  Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcptraceroute/tcptracer oute_1.2-2_mips.deb


• Debian tcptraceroute_1.2-2_mipsel.deb
  Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcptraceroute/tcptracer oute_1.2-2_mipsel.deb


• Debian tcptraceroute_1.2-2_powerpc.deb
  Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcptraceroute/tcptracer oute_1.2-2_powerpc.deb


• Debian tcptraceroute_1.2-2_s390.deb
  Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcptraceroute/tcptracer oute_1.2-2_s390.deb


• Debian tcptraceroute_1.2-2_sparc.deb
  Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcptraceroute/tcptracer oute_1.2-2_sparc.deb