The AX.25 daemon (ax25d) in ax25-tools before 0.0.8-13...
High severity
Unreviewed
Published
Apr 22, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Apr 3, 2024
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Nov 15, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Apr 22, 2022
Last updated
Apr 3, 2024
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.
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