vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2008-3896: grub -- security update

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 15, 2025
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 27, 2025

Description

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.

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
Title
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