CVE-2008-3896
Published: 3 September 2008
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.
Notes
Author | Note |
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jdstrand | requires root access to the machine, which gives access to do anything anyway (unless restricting root access via SELinux, which Ubuntu does not) |
mdeslaur | let's ignore this |