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CVE-2011-1173
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…
Medium5.0EPSS 2.6%
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- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.6% · top 15% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (8)
- [netdev] 20110317 [PATCH] econet: 4 byte infoleak to the network (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20110318 CVE request: kernel: netfilter & econet infoleaks (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=67c5c6cb8129c595f21e88254a3fc6b3b841ae8e (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 8279 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591815#c14 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20110321 Re: CVE request: kernel: netfilter & econet infoleaks (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20110321 Re: CVE request: kernel: netfilter & econet infoleaks (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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