Security Advisory

CVE-2014-8476

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2014-11-13 15:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 13:18:48
Assigner mitre
State 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.