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CVE-2011-3603

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% 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-20

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.

Affected products

• Litech Router Advertisement Daemon: through 1.8.1

References

• http://www.litech.org/radvd/CHANGES
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/06/3
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-3603
• http://www.litech.org/radvd/CHANGES
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/06/3
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-3603

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