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ax25-tools — security advisory
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.
- Products
- ax25-tools
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 0.0.8-13.2
- CVEs
- CVE-2011-2910
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 00:01 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2011-2910
ax25-tools
Fixed versions: 0.0.8-13.2
ax25-tools
Fixed versions: 0.0.8-13.2
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2019-11-15T17:15:12.617+00:00"
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