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...

CVE-2011-2910

The vulnerability CVE-2011-2910 affects the AX.25 daemon (ax25d) in ax25-tools prior to version 0.0.8-13. The issue is that the daemon does not check the return value of setuid, which is intended to drop privileges. If setuid fails, the process may continue running with root privileges, enabling ...