Information disclosure in Freebsd

CVE-2014-8476

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.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.004 (31.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Freebsd — versions 8.4, 9.0, 9.1
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_FREEBSD, vendor-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)