SB2014111306 - Information disclosure in FreeBSD
Published: November 13, 2014 Updated: August 9, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2014111306
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Information disclosure
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-8476)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.