CVE-2014-8476

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Summary

CVECVE-2014-8476
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-11-13 21:32:07 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 2.1 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-200 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
None
Availability
None

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 10.0 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 10.1 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 10.1 rc1 All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 10.1 rc2 All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 10.1 rc3 All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 10.1 rc4 All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 8.4 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 9.0 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 9.0 beta1 All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 9.0 beta2 All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 9.1 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 9.2 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 9.3 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3070-1 kfreebsd-9 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Vendor Advisory
Security Advisory SA62218 - Debian update for kfreebsd-9 - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14%3A25.setlogin.asc af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.freebsd.org
Security Advisory SA61118 - FreeBSD "sys_getlogin()" Information Disclosure Weakness - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
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