FKIE_CVE-2014-8476
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-11-13 21:32 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:16
Severity
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.
References
Impacted products
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"lastModified": "2026-06-17T00:16:46.813",
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