CVE-2014-8476

The setlogin function in FreeBSD 8.4 through 10.1-RC4 does not initialize the buffer used to store the login name, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a call to getlogin, which returns the entire buffer.

Score

CVSS 2.0 2.1 Low

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2014-11-13

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-200

Affected products

• Freebsd (Freebsd)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/61118
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62218
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3070
• https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14%3A25.setlogin.asc