CVE-2011-2910

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-2910
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2011-2910.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2011-2910
Downstream
Published
2019-11-15T17:15:12Z
Modified
2026-04-10T03:41:55.247040Z
Severity
  • 6.7 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages