CVE-2005-4176

Summary

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• n/a

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• http://www.ivizsecurity.com/preboot-patch.html
• http://www.ivizsecurity.com/research/preboot/preboot_whitepaper.pdf
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15751
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419610/100/0/threaded
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/847537
• http://www.pulltheplug.org/users/endrazine/Bios.Information.Leakage.txt

References

• http://www.ivizsecurity.com/preboot-patch.html
• http://www.ivizsecurity.com/research/preboot/preboot_whitepaper.pdf
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15751
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419610/100/0/threaded
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/847537
• http://www.pulltheplug.org/users/endrazine/Bios.Information.Leakage.txt

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