CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-1173
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-06-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Description
The econet_sendmsg function in net/econet/af_econet.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 on the x86_64 platform allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading uninitialized data in the ah field of an Acorn Universal Networking (AUN) packet.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.39)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=67c5c6cb8129c595f21e88254a3fc6b3b841ae8e git.kernel.org
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=130036203528021&w=2 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8279 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/18/15 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/21/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/21/4 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591815#c14 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=67c5c6cb8129c595f21e88254a3fc6b3b841ae8e git.kernel.org
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=130036203528021&w=2 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8279 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/18/15 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/21/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/21/4 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591815#c14 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory