Description (CNA)
AWARD Bios Modular 4.50pg does not clear the keyboard buffer after reading the BIOS password during system startup, which allows local administrators or users to read the password directly from physical memory.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- http://www.ivizsecurity.com/preboot-patch.html
- http://www.ivizsecurity.com/research/preboot/preboot_whitepaper.pdf
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15751
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419610/100/0/threaded
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/847537
- http://www.pulltheplug.org/users/endrazine/Bios.Information.Leakage.txt
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
- http://www.ivizsecurity.com/preboot-patch.html
- http://www.ivizsecurity.com/research/preboot/preboot_whitepaper.pdf
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15751
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419610/100/0/threaded
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/847537
- http://www.pulltheplug.org/users/endrazine/Bios.Information.Leakage.txt