#VU41107 Information disclosure in FreeBSD - CVE-2014-8476

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#VU41107 Information disclosure in FreeBSD - CVE-2014-8476

Published: November 13, 2014 / Updated: August 9, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU41107
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-8476
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
FreeBSD
Software vendor:
FreeBSD Foundation

Description

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.

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