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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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2019-11-15T16:37:29

Updated: 2019-11-15T16:37:29

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


Link: CVE-2011-2910

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

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

Modified: 2019-11-26T15:08:52.157


Link: CVE-2011-2910

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