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CVE-2014-8476

CVE-2014-8476

EPSS 0.4%
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.
Affected products
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References
http://secunia.com/advisories/61118http://secunia.com/advisories/62218https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14%3A25.setlogin.aschttp://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3070