Information Exposure Affecting kfreebsd-10 package, versions <10.1~svn274115-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-KFREEBSD10-337037
  • published13 Nov 2014
  • disclosed13 Nov 2014

Introduced: 13 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-8476  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 kfreebsd-10 to version 10.1~svn274115-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kfreebsd-10 package and not the kfreebsd-10 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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