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.
Published: 2019-11-15
Score: 6.7 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2011-2883 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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Debian Debian Linux
Linux-ax25 Ax25-tools
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T23:15:31.523Z

Reserved: 2011-07-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2011-2910

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-11-15T17:15:12.617

Modified: 2024-11-21T01:29:15.430

Link: CVE-2011-2910

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