CVE-2011-3602

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-04-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in device-linux.c in the router advertisement daemon (radvd) before 1.8.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files, and remote attackers to overwrite certain files, via a .. (dot dot) in an interface name. NOTE: this can be leveraged with a symlink to overwrite arbitrary files.

Affected products

Litech Router Advertisement Daemon: through 1.8.1

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2323
http://www.litech.org/radvd/CHANGES
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/06/3
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1257-1
https://github.com/reubenhwk/radvd/commit/92e22ca23e52066da2258df8c76a2dca8a428bcc
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2323
http://www.litech.org/radvd/CHANGES
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/06/3
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1257-1
https://github.com/reubenhwk/radvd/commit/92e22ca23e52066da2258df8c76a2dca8a428bcc

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