CVE-2008-3896

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...

CVE-2008-3896

CVE-2008-3896 affects Grub Legacy 0.97 and earlier, where pre-boot authentication passwords are stored in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and not cleared before/after use, enabling local users to read sensitive information from memory. Impact is partial confidentiality ; no exploitation details are prov...

[IVIZ-08-009] Grub Legacy Security Model bypass exploiting wrong BIOS API usage

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Multiple Vendor BIOS - Keyboard Buffer Password Persistence (2)

Multiple Vendor BIOS - Keyboard Buffer Password Persistence 2 // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15751/info Multiple vendors fail to clear the BIOS Basic Input-Output System keyboard buffer after reading the preboot authentication password during the system startup process. Depending on...

Multiple Vendor BIOS - Keyboard Buffer Password Persistence (1)

Multiple Vendor BIOS - Keyboard Buffer Password Persistence 1 source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15751/info Multiple vendors fail to clear the BIOS Basic Input-Output System keyboard buffer after reading the preboot authentication password during the system startup process. Depending on th...

Multiple Vendor BIOS - Keyboard Buffer Password Persistence (2)

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15751/info Multiple vendors fail to clear the BIOS Basic Input-Output System keyboard buffer after reading the preboot authentication password during the system startup process. Depending on the operating system running on affected computers, the memor...

Multiple Vendor BIOS - Keyboard Buffer Password Persistence (1)

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15751/info Multiple vendors fail to clear the BIOS Basic Input-Output System keyboard buffer after reading the preboot authentication password during the system startup process. Depending on the operating system running on affected computers, the memory...