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CVE-2008-3900

Published: Sep 3, 2008

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Intel firmware PE94510M.86A.0050.2007.0710.1559 stores pre-boot authentication passwords in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and does not clear this buffer after use, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the physical memory locations associated with this buffer.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

20080825 [IVIZ-08-004] Intel BIOS Plain Text Password Disclosure

mailing-list

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third-party-advisory

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vdb-entry

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http://www.ivizsecurity.com/preboot-patch.html

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http://www.ivizsecurity.com/research/preboot/preboot_whitepaper.pdf

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third-party-advisory

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