CVE-2014-8476 (GCVE-0-2014-8476)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-11-13 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:18
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3070 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeB… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSD
http://secunia.com/advisories/62218 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/61118 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2014-11-04 00:00
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