Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 15, 2019· Updated Aug 6, 2024
CVE-2011-2910
CVE-2011-2910
Description
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.
Affected products
1- Range: before 0.0.8-13
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
3- access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2910mitrex_refsource_MISC
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgimitrex_refsource_MISC
- security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2910mitrex_refsource_MISC
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