CVE-2011-2910

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Nov 15, 2019
Updated
Aug 6, 2024
Reserved
Jul 27, 2011

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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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
ax25-toolsax25-tools
  • before 0.0.8-13Affected

References

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