CVE-2014-8476: Freebsd

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 8.4 only; version 9.0 only; version 9.1 only; version 9.2 only; version 9.3 only; version 10.0 only; …

Published 2014-11-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.