CVE-2011-1173 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2011-1173?

CVE-2011-1173 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 22 Jun 2011. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-1173?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2011-1173?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2011-1173 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-1173 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-mq36-8q5f-7672.