Security Advisory
CVE-2014-8476
2.1
Vulnerability Description
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.
Published Date
November 13, 2014
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory