cve-2014-8476
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-11-13 15:00
Modified
2024-08-06 13:18
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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.
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