CVE-2011-3603 (GCVE-0-2011-3603)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-04-27 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 23:37
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2011-10-06 00:00
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