CVE-2005-4176

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Dec 11, 2005
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Dec 11, 2005

Description

AWARD Bios Modular 4.50pg does not clear the keyboard buffer after reading the BIOS password during system startup, which allows local administrators or users to read the password directly from physical memory.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://www.ivizsecurity.com/preboot-patch.html
http://www.ivizsecurity.com/research/preboot/preboot_whitepaper.pdf
15751vdb-entry
20051213 Bios Information Leakagemailing-list
VU#847537third-party-advisory
http://www.pulltheplug.org/users/endrazine/Bios.Information.Leakage.txt

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