2.1
CVSSv2

CVE-2014-8476

Published: 13/11/2014 Updated: 14/11/2014
CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 187
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

The setlogin function in FreeBSD 8.4 up to and including 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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Debian Bug report logs - #766275 kfreebsd-9: CVE-2014-3711: memory leak in sandboxed namei lookup Package: src:kfreebsd-9; Maintainer for src:kfreebsd-9 is (unknown); Reported by: Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyroeuorg> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 21:33:01 UTC Severity: important Tags: patch, security, upstream Found in versio ...
Debian Bug report logs - #768104 kfreebsd-9: CVE-2014-8476: getlogin kernel memory disclosure Package: src:kfreebsd-9; Maintainer for src:kfreebsd-9 is (unknown); Reported by: Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyroeuorg> Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 01:09:01 UTC Severity: grave Tags: patch, security, upstream, wheezy Found in versio ...
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the FreeBSD kernel that may lead to a denial of service or information disclosure CVE-2014-3711 Denial of service through memory leak in sandboxed namei lookups CVE-2014-3952 Kernel memory disclosure in sockbuf control messages CVE-2014-3953 Kernel memory disclosure in SCTP This updat ...