Upstream information

CVE-2011-3603 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 4.4
Vector AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 721968 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

    openSUSE-SU-2011:1247-1

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
  • radvd >= 1.1-1.24.4.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 GA radvd-1.1-1.24.4.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
  • radvd >= 1.1-1.24.4.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 GA radvd-1.1-1.24.4.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
  • radvd >= 1.1-1.24.8.19
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 GA radvd-1.1-1.24.8.19

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 radvd Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3 radvd Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4-LTSS radvd Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 radvd Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS radvd Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1-LTSS radvd Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 radvd Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2-LTSS radvd Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 radvd Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS radvd Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Business All-in-One 11 SP1 radvd Released

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 08:15:09 2013
CVE page last modified: Tue Dec 17 19:17:53 2024