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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2008-09-03T14:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T09:53:00.618Z

Reserved: 2008-09-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-3896

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-09-03T14:12:00.000

Modified: 2018-10-11T20:50:18.907

Link: CVE-2008-3896

cve-icon Redhat

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