CVE-2011-2910

The AX.25 daemon (ax25d) in ax25-tools before 0.0.8-13 does not check the return value of a setuid call. The setuid call is responsible for dropping privileges but if the call fails the daemon would continue to run with root privileges which can allow possible privilege escalation.

Score

CVSS 3.1 6.7 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2019-11-15

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-269

Affected products

• Ax25-tools (Ax25-tools)
• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Ax25-tools (Linux-ax25)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2910
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-2910
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2910