CVE-2011-3603

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{"acknowledgement": "Red Hat would like to thank Vasiliy Kulikov (Openwall) for reporting this issue.", "bugzilla": {"description": "radvd: daemon would not fail on privsep_init() causing it to run with full root privileges", "id": "743752", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743752"}, "csaw": false, "cvss": {"cvss_base_score": "4.4", "cvss_scoring_vector": "AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P", "status": "draft"}, "details": ["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."], "name": "CVE-2011-3603", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "radvd", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "radvd", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "radvd", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"}], "public_date": "2011-10-04T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-3603\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-3603"], "statement": "A failure in privsep_init() does not cause radvd to run with full root privileges when invoked with the --username option specifying an unprivileged user. Rather it will run as a single process as the specified (unprivileged) radvd user, causing this issue to have no security impact (no unintended privilege elevation).", "threat_severity": "Moderate"}

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