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.

This update of radvd fixes the following security flaws :

  - arbitrary file overwrite flaw through unsanitized     interface names (CVE-2011-3602),

  - missing return value checks in privsep_init() which     could cause radvd to keep running with root privileges     (CVE-2011-3603),

  - buffer overread flaws in the process_ra() function     (CVE-2011-3604),

  - temporary denial of service flaw triggered with a flood     of ND_ROUTER_SOLICIT (CVE-2011-3605)

This update of radvd fixes the following security flaws :

  - arbitrary file overwrite flaw through unsanitized     interface names (CVE-2011-3602),

  - missing return value checks in privsep_init() which     could cause radvd to keep running with root privileges     (CVE-2011-3603),

  - buffer overread flaws in the process_ra() function     (CVE-2011-3604),

  - temporary denial of service flaw triggered by a flood of     ND_ROUTER_SOLICIT (CVE-2011-3605)

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201111-08 (radvd: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in radvd. Please review       the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote unauthenticated attacker may be able to gain escalated       privileges, escalate the privileges of the radvd process, overwrite files       with specific names, or cause a Denial of Service. Local attackers may be       able to overwrite the contents of arbitrary files using symlinks.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

update to latest upstream radvd-1.8.2 fixes CVE-2011-3601, CVE-2011-3602, CVE-2011-3603, CVE-2011-3604, CVE-2011-= 3605
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Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
76008	openSUSE Security Update : radvd (openSUSE-SU-2011:1247-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
75724	openSUSE Security Update : radvd (openSUSE-SU-2011:1247-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
57133	SuSE 11.1 Security Update : radvd (SAT Patch Number 5397)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
56904	GLSA-201111-08 : radvd: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
56717	Fedora 16 : radvd-1.8.2-2.fc16 (2011-13989)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
56656	Fedora 15 : radvd-1.8.2-2.fc15 (2011-14022)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
56655	Fedora 14 : radvd-1.8.2-2.fc14 (2011-14000)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

Detections

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CVE-2011-3603

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Tenable Plugins

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