Uninitialized Data Leak in econet_sendmsg Function

CVE-2011-1173 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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.

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