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CVE-2008-3895

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-200 Information Leak / Disclosure
Publication date:
03/09/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 2.10 LOW
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
2.10
Severity 2.0
LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:lilo:lilo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 22.6.1 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:lilo:lilo:0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lilo:lilo:1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lilo:lilo:2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lilo:lilo:3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lilo:lilo:4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lilo:lilo:5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lilo:lilo:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lilo:lilo:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lilo:lilo:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lilo:lilo:9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lilo:lilo:10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lilo:lilo:11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lilo:lilo:12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lilo:lilo:13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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