CVE-2011-2910

Summary

CVECVE-2011-2910
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-11-15 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2019-11-26 15:08:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-269

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Linux-ax25 Ax25-tools All All All All
Application Linux-ax25 Ax25-tools All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
access.redhat.com | CVE-2011-2910 MISC access.redhat.com Broken Link
730783 – (CVE-2011-2910) CVE-2011-2910 ax25-tools: possible privilege escalation due to failure to check for s*id return values MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
CVE-2011-2910 MISC security-tracker.debian.org Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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