Security Advisory

CVE-2008-3896

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-09-03 14:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 09:53:00

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

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.

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