CVE-2011-1173 (GCVE-0-2011-1173)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-06-22 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:21
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
8 references
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| http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8279 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON |
| http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/Chang… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591815#c14 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/21/4 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/21/1 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
Date Public
2011-03-17 00:00
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