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CVE-2008-3895

CVE-2008-3895

EPSS 0.4%
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.
Affected products
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References
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4211http://www.ivizsecurity.com/preboot-patch.htmlhttp://www.ivizsecurity.com/research/preboot/preboot_whitepaper.pdfhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495801/100/0/threaded