CVE-2011-3602

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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 6.4 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2014-04-27

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-22

Affected products

• Router Advertisement Daemon (Litech)

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