CVE-2011-2910 (GCVE-0-2011-2910)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-11-15 16:37 – Updated: 2024-08-06 23:15
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Summary
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.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • possible privilege escalation due to failure to check for s*id return values
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ax25-tools ax25-tools Affected: before 0.0.8-13
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