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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2019-11-15T16:37:29
Updated: 2024-08-06T23:15:31.523Z
Reserved: 2011-07-27T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2011-2910
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2019-11-15T17:15:12.617
Modified: 2024-11-21T01:29:15.430
Link: CVE-2011-2910
Redhat
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