CVE-2011-2910 in ax25-tools

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.

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• Reservation: 07/27/2011
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1: VDB-145819
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-269 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 5.4
• EPSS: 0.00130
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-2910
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2910
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2011-2910/