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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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2014-11-13T15:00:00
Updated: 2014-11-13T13:57:01
Reserved: 2014-10-24T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2014-8476
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2014-11-13T21:32:07.703
Modified: 2014-11-14T15:01:54.237
Link: CVE-2014-8476
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