| Name | CVE-2014-8476 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-3070-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 768104, 768106, 768108, 768109 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| kfreebsd-10 (PTS) | jessie | 10.1~svn274115-4 | fixed |
| stretch | 10.3~svn300087-3 | fixed | |
| buster | 10.3~svn300087-5 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| kfreebsd-10 | source | (unstable) | 10.1~svn274115-1 | 768108 | ||
| kfreebsd-11 | unknown | experimental | 11.0~svn284956-1 | 768109 | ||
| kfreebsd-8 | source | squeeze | (unfixed) | end-of-life | ||
| kfreebsd-8 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | 768106 | ||
| kfreebsd-9 | source | wheezy | 9.0-10+deb70.8 | DSA-3070-1 | ||
| kfreebsd-9 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | 768104 |
[wheezy] - kfreebsd-8 <no-dsa> (kfreebsd-8 only a test kernel, can be fixed in a point release)
[squeeze] - kfreebsd-8 <end-of-life> (Unsupported in squeeze-lts)
http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:25.setlogin.asc