CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-8476

2.1 LOW Published 2014-11-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-11-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-200

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.

Affected configurations

• freebsd freebsd 8.4 • freebsd freebsd 9.0 • freebsd freebsd 9.1 • freebsd freebsd 9.2 • freebsd freebsd 9.3 • freebsd freebsd 10.0 • freebsd freebsd 10.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness

References