CVE-2008-3896

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…

published September 3, 2008

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
27.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00346 · 27.0th percentile
Published
2008-09-03T14:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 SEP 14:00Z
    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…
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