CVE-2011-2910
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.
Published:Nov 15, 2019
Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
EPS:Nov 15, 2019
EPSS Score:0.0013
CVSS Score:6.7
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Debian
Product
Debian Linux
Debian
Debian Linux
Vendor
Linux-ax25
Product
Ax25-tools
Linux-ax25
Ax25-tools
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Related CVEs
References
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
