Security Advisory
CVE-2011-2910
6.7
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
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 Date
November 15, 2019
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory