Security Advisory

CVE-2008-7020

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2009-08-21 14:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 11:49:02
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

McAfee SafeBoot Device Encryption 4 build 4750 and earlier stores pre-boot authentication passwords in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and does not clear this buffer after use, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the physical memory locations associated with this buffer.