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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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
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2008-09-03T14:12:00.000
Modified: 2024-11-21T00:50:22.820
Link: CVE-2008-3896
Redhat
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