CVE-2008-3896

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.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495726/100/0/threaded

http://www.ivizsecurity.com/research/preboot/preboot_whitepaper.pdf

http://www.ivizsecurity.com/preboot-patch.html

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4206

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4204

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3