Detections
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CVE-2011-1173
high
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.
References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591815#c14
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/21/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/21/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/18/15
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8279