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CVE-2014-8476

Published: Nov 13, 2014

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

n/a

affected
n/a

References

DSA-3070
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
FreeBSD-SA-14:25
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FREEBSD
62218
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
61118
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA

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