CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-7020
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-08-21
- 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-310
Description
McAfee SafeBoot Device Encryption 4 build 4750 and earlier 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.
Affected configurations
• mcafee safeboot device encryption 4
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2008/Sep/0378.html seclists.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31903 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.ivizsecurity.com/research/preboot/preboot_whitepaper.pdf www.ivizsecurity.com
- http://www.ivizsecurity.com/security-advisory-iviz-sr-08010.html www.ivizsecurity.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45275 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2008/Sep/0378.html seclists.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31903 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.ivizsecurity.com/research/preboot/preboot_whitepaper.pdf www.ivizsecurity.com
- http://www.ivizsecurity.com/security-advisory-iviz-sr-08010.html www.ivizsecurity.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45275 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com