CVE-2011-2910

2019-11-1516:37:29

redhat

www.cve.org

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

12.7%

JSON

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.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "ax25-tools",
    "vendor": "ax25-tools",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "before 0.0.8-13"
      }
    ]
  }
]