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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2014-11-13T15:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T13:18:48.291Z

Reserved: 2014-10-24T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2014-8476

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2014-11-13T21:32:07.703

Modified: 2014-11-14T15:01:54.237

Link: CVE-2014-8476

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