CVE-2011-2910

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.7 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-11-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-269

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.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
Linux-Ax25 Ax25-Tools: before 0.0.8-13 — fixed in 0.0.8-13

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux-Ax25 Ax25-Tools 0.0.8-13. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

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
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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