5.4 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
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.
secunia.com/advisories/61118
secunia.com/advisories/62218
www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3070
www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14%3A25.setlogin.asc