Published: 15/11/2019 Updated: 26/11/2019

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 6.7 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 0.8

VMScore: 641

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The AX.25 daemon (ax25d) in ax25-tools prior to 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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linux-ax25 ax25-tools
debian debian linux 8.0
debian debian linux 9.0
debian debian linux 10.0

Debian Bug report logs - #638198 CVE-2011-2910: Missing return checks Package: ax25-tools; Maintainer for ax25-tools is Debian Hamradio Maintainers <debian-hams@listsdebianorg>; Source for ax25-tools is src:ax25-tools (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <muehlenhoff@univentionde> Date: Wed, 17 Au ...

CWE-269 https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2910 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2910 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-2910 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=638198 https://nvd.nist.gov

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