Security Advisory

CVE-2008-3894

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-09-03 14:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 09:53:00
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

IBM Lenovo firmware 7CETB5WW 2.05 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.