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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2011-3603: radvd: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2011-3603: radvd: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/27/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-misc-radvd

References

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