CVE-2008-3896 (GCVE-0-2008-3896)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-09-03 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 09:53
VLAI
Summary
Grub Legacy 0.97 and earlier stores pre-boot authentication passwords in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and does not clear this buffer before and after use, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the physical memory locations associated with this buffer.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495726/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4206 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.ivizsecurity.com/preboot-patch.html x_refsource_MISC
http://www.ivizsecurity.com/research/preboot/preb… x_refsource_MISC
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4204 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
Date Public
2008-08-10 00:00
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