CVE-2011-3603 — Improper Input Validation in Router Advertisement Daemon

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation5 documents5 sources
Severity
4.4MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 80.67%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Litech Router Advertisement Daemon
Timeline
PublishedApr 27
Latest updateMay 17

Description

The router advertisement daemon (radvd) before 1.8.2 does not properly handle errors in the privsep_init function, which causes the radvd daemon to run as root and has an unspecified impact.

CVSS vector

AV:L/AC:M/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 3.4 | Impact: 6.4

Affected Packages1 packages

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-5m4v-m59g-55c2: The router advertisement daemon (radvd) before 1↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2011-3603: The router advertisement daemon (radvd) before 1↗2014-04-27
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Red Hat
radvd: daemon would not fail on privsep_init() causing it to run with full root privileges↗2011-10-04
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2011-3603 radvd: daemon would not fail on privsep_init() causing it to run with full root privileges↗2011-10-05
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CVE-2011-3603 — Improper Input Validation | cvebase