Vulnerability CVE-2011-2910


Published: 2019-11-15   Modified: 2019-11-16

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.

Type:

CWE-269

(Improper Privilege Management)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.2/10
10/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Linux-ax25 -> Ax25-tools 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2910
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-2910
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2910

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