Information Exposure Affecting freebsd package, versions [8.4,10.1]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEBSD-2383223
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Nov 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Nov 2014

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

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for freebsd.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. 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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