CVE-2011-3603

MEDIUM 4.4CVE-2011-3603 · Published 27/04/2014 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2011-3603 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.4) vulnerability affecting router advertisement daemon (litech).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.36%, higher than 29.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
router advertisement daemon litech	`≤ 1.8.1`	No fix yet

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.

References

litech.org/radvd/CHANGES
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/06/3
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-3603

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