CVE-2011-1173 Information

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.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=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=591815c14