CVE-2008-3893: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Microsoft Bitlocker in Windows Vista before SP1 stores pre-boot authentication passwords in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and does not clear this buffer during boot, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the physical memory locations associated with this buffer...

CVE-2008-3900: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Intel firmware PE94510M.86A.0050.2007.0710.1559 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...

CVE-2008-3899: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

TrueCrypt 5.0 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. NOTE: the researcher mentions a...

CVE-2008-3895: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

LILO 22.6.1 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...

PT-2008-5228 · Microsoft · Windows Vista

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Windows Vista versions prior to SP1 Description: The issue allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading physical memory locations associated with the BIOS Keyboard buffer, which stores pre-boot authentication passwords. This...

CVE-2008-3897: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

DiskCryptor 0.2.6 on Windows 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: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

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-2008-3901: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Software suspend 2 2-2.2.1, when used with the Linux kernel 2.6.16, 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...

CVE-2008-3898: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Secu Star DriveCrypt Plus Pack 3.9 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...

[IVIZ-08-005] IBM Lenovo BIOS Plain Text Password Disclosure

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[IVIZ-08-007] DriveCrypt Security Model bypass exploiting wrong BIOS API usage

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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...