PT-2011-2920

CVE-2011-1173

Published

2011-06-22

Updated

2023-02-13

Description by

CVSS 2.0

5.0

Medium

MetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.39

Description The issue 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. This is due to a problem in the econet sendmsg function in net/econet/af econet.c on the x86 64 platform.

Recommendations For Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.39, update to version 2.6.39 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploitability

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Eugene Teo

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Related identifiers

CVE-2011-1173