CVE-2011-2910

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.7
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux-ax25 Ax25-tools
PublishedNov 15, 2019
First seenNov 15, 2019

How to fix

Update
  • linux-ax25 ax25-tools0.0.8-13 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux-ax25 ax25-toolsv < 0.0.8-130.0.8-13
debian debian_linux8.0, 9.0, 10.0—

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