CVE-2011-3603

Publication date 27 April 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
radvd 11.10 oneiric
Fixed 1:1.8-1ubuntu0.1
11.04 natty
Fixed 1:1.7-1ubuntu0.1
10.10 maverick
Fixed 1:1.6-1ubuntu0.1
10.04 LTS lucid
Fixed 1:1.3-1.1ubuntu0.1
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored end of life

Notes

mdeslaur

it turns out this had no security impact after all, and the CVE number got rejected. We've fixed the issue anyway, but won't mention it in the USN

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package Patch details
radvd