CVE-2011-1173: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 2.6.39 (fixed in 2.6.39)

Published 2011-06-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.