Your submission was sent successfully! Close

You have successfully unsubscribed! Close

Thank you for signing up for our newsletter!
In these regular emails you will find the latest updates about Ubuntu and upcoming events where you can meet our team.Close

CVE-2014-8476

Published: 13 November 2014

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.

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
kfreebsd-8
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
lucid Ignored
(end of life)
precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream
Released (8.4-RELEASE-p19)
utopic Does not exist

Patches:
upstream: http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-14:25/setlogin.patch