CVE-2008-3902

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Sep 3, 2008
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Sep 3, 2008

Description

HP firmware 68DTT F.0D 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, aka SSRT080104.

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
4214third-party-advisory
20080825 [IVIZ-08-002] Hewlett-Packard BIOS Plain Text Password Disclosuremailing-list

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