CVE-2011-1173

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-06-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: 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 products

Linux kernel: before 2.6.39 — fixed in 2.6.39

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 2.6.39. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=67c5c6cb8129c595f21e88254a3fc6b3b841ae8e
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=130036203528021&w=2
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8279
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/18/15
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/21/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/21/4
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591815#c14
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=67c5c6cb8129c595f21e88254a3fc6b3b841ae8e
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=130036203528021&w=2
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8279
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39

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