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Case File

CVE-2014-8476

LOW · CVSS 2.1 EPSS 0.39%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2014-11-13 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2014-8476
Severity
LOW
CVSS
2.1
EPSS
0.39%

Original Filing — NVD 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.