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CVE-2014-8476

Status Candidate

Overview

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.

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Debian Security Advisory 3070-1
Posted Nov 10, 2014
Authored by Debian | Site debian.org

Debian Linux Security Advisory 3070-1 - Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the FreeBSD kernel that may lead to a denial of service or information disclosure.

tags | advisory, denial of service, kernel, vulnerability, info disclosure
systems | linux, freebsd, debian
advisories | CVE-2014-3711, CVE-2014-3952, CVE-2014-3953, CVE-2014-8476
SHA-256 | 35934d202298475350a39abfefbd1bbc283d954535307ddb4cbccb516374b025
FreeBSD Security Advisory - Kernel Stack Disclosure
Posted Nov 5, 2014
Site security.freebsd.org

FreeBSD Security Advisory - When setlogin(2) is called while setting up a new login session, the login name is copied into an uninitialized stack buffer, which is then copied into a buffer of the same size in the session structure. The getlogin(2) system call returns the entire buffer rather than just the portion occupied by the login name associated with the session. An unprivileged user can access this memory by calling getlogin(2) and reading beyond the terminating NUL character of the resulting string. Up to 16 (FreeBSD 8) or 32 (FreeBSD 9 and 10) bytes of kernel memory may be leaked in this manner for each invocation of setlogin(2). This memory may contain sensitive information, such as portions of the file cache or terminal buffers, which an attacker might leverage to obtain elevated privileges.

tags | advisory, kernel
systems | freebsd
advisories | CVE-2014-8476
SHA-256 | 23fbb0c0a00923eafb684d61182e85209722ef19a307b518f0e37f0833b833cf
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