metadata/glsa/glsa-201111-08.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201111-08">
  <title>radvd: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in radvd which could
    potentially lead to privilege escalation, data loss, or a Denial of
    Service.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">radvd</product>
  <announced>November 20, 2011</announced>
  <revised>November 20, 2011: 1</revised>
  <bug>385967</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-misc/radvd" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.8.2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.8.2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>radvd is an IPv6 router advertisement daemon for Linux and BSD.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in radvd. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>A remote unauthenticated attacker may be able to gain escalated
      privileges, escalate the privileges of the radvd process, overwrite files
      with specific names, or cause a Denial of Service. Local attackers may be
      able to overwrite the contents of arbitrary files using symlinks. 
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All radvd users should upgrade to the latest stable version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-misc/radvd-1.8.2"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-3601">CVE-2011-3601</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-3602">CVE-2011-3602</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-3603">CVE-2011-3603</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-3604">CVE-2011-3604</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-3605">CVE-2011-3605</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata timestamp="Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:43:03 +0000" tag="requester">ago</metadata>
  <metadata timestamp="Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:56:48 +0000" tag="submitter">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>