CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-3895

2.1 LOW Published 2008-09-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-09-03
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-200

Description

LILO 22.6.1 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.

Affected configurations

• lilo lilo (<= 22.6.1) • lilo lilo 0 • lilo lilo 1 • lilo lilo 2 • lilo lilo 3 • lilo lilo 4 • lilo lilo 5 • lilo lilo 6 • lilo lilo 7 • lilo lilo 8 • lilo lilo 9 • lilo lilo 10 • lilo lilo 11 • lilo lilo 12 • lilo lilo 13 • lilo lilo 14 • lilo lilo 15 • lilo lilo 16 • lilo lilo 17 • lilo lilo 18 • lilo lilo 19 • lilo lilo 20 • lilo lilo 21 • lilo lilo 21-3 • lilo lilo 21.4.2 • lilo lilo 21.4.3 • lilo lilo 21.4.4 • lilo lilo 21.5 • lilo lilo 21.5.1 • lilo lilo 21.6 • lilo lilo 21.6.1 • lilo lilo 21.7 • lilo lilo 21.7.1 • lilo lilo 21.7.2 • lilo lilo 21.7.3 • lilo lilo 21.7.4 • lilo lilo 21.7.5 • lilo lilo 22.0 • lilo lilo 22.0.1 • lilo lilo 22.0.2 • lilo lilo 22.1 • lilo lilo 22.2 • lilo lilo 22.3 • lilo lilo 22.3.1 • lilo lilo 22.3.2 • lilo lilo 22.3.3 • lilo lilo 22.3.4 • lilo lilo 22.4 • lilo lilo 22.4.1 • lilo lilo 22.5 • lilo lilo 22.5.1 • lilo lilo 22.5.2 • lilo lilo 22.5.3 • lilo lilo 22.5.3.1 • lilo lilo 22.5.4 • lilo lilo 22.5.5 • lilo lilo 22.5.6 • lilo lilo 22.5.7 • lilo lilo 22.5.7.2 • lilo lilo 22.5.8 … and 2 more

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness

References