CVE-2008-3895

Published Sep 3, 2008

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

Description
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.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Modified

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
2.1
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
3.9
Vector string
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-200

Vendor comments

  • Red HatRed Hat does not consider this to be a security issue. Since these operations can only be executed by root, no trust boundary is crossed as a result of this behaviour.

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