Security Advisory

CVE-2008-3893

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-09-03 14:00:00

Last updated 2025-04-03 13:36:25

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

Microsoft Bitlocker in Windows Vista before SP1 stores pre-boot authentication passwords in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and does not clear this buffer during boot, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the physical memory locations associated with this buffer.

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