| Name | CVE-2011-2910 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 638198 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| ax25-tools (PTS) | bullseye | 0.0.10-rc5+git20190411+3595f87-5 | fixed |
| bookworm | 0.0.10-rc5+git20190411+3595f87-6 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 0.0.10-rc5+git20230513+d3e6d4f-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| ax25-tools | source | (unstable) | 0.0.8-13.2 | low | | 638198 |
Notes
[lenny] - ax25-tools <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[squeeze] - ax25-tools <no-dsa> (Minor issue)