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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201111-08 |
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Severity: High |
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Title: radvd: Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Date: November 20, 2011 |
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Bugs: #385967 |
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ID: 201111-08 |
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Synopsis |
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in radvd which could |
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potentially lead to privilege escalation, data loss, or a Denial of |
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Service. |
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Background |
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radvd is an IPv6 router advertisement daemon for Linux and BSD. |
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Affected packages |
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected |
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1 net-misc/radvd < 1.8.2 >= 1.8.2 |
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Description |
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in radvd. Please review |
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the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. |
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Impact |
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A remote unauthenticated attacker may be able to gain escalated |
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privileges, escalate the privileges of the radvd process, overwrite |
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files with specific names, or cause a Denial of Service. Local |
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attackers may be able to overwrite the contents of arbitrary files |
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using symlinks. |
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Workaround |
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There is no known workaround at this time. |
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Resolution |
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All radvd users should upgrade to the latest stable version: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/radvd-1.8.2" |
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References |
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[ 1 ] CVE-2011-3601 |
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http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-3601 |
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[ 2 ] CVE-2011-3602 |
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http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-3602 |
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[ 3 ] CVE-2011-3603 |
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http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-3603 |
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[ 4 ] CVE-2011-3604 |
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http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-3604 |
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[ 5 ] CVE-2011-3605 |
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http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-3605 |
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Availability |
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at |
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the Gentoo Security Website: |
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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201111-08.xml |
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Concerns? |
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the |
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confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost |
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importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to |
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security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org. |
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License |
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Copyright 2011 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text |
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belongs to its owner(s). |
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The contents of this document are licensed under the |
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Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 |