CVE-2014-8476
N/A
Published: November 13, 2014 at 03:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:16 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorFreeBSD
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (4)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3070Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSD
Source: [email protected]
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14%3A25.setlogin.ascQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-200
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