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...