CVE-2011-2910: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.7. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Linux-AX25 AX25-Tools: before 0.0.8-13 (fixed in 0.0.8-13)

Published 2019-11-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.