cvelist/2011/2xxx/CVE-2011-2910.json

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        "ID": "CVE-2011-2910",
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            {
                "lang": "eng",
                "value": "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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                        "value": "possible privilege escalation due to failure to check for s*id return values"
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                "url": "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2910",
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                "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-2910",
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            },
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