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  • Committer: Steve Beattie
  • Date: 2019-02-19 06:18:27 UTC
  • Revision ID: sbeattie@ubuntu.com-20190219061827-oh57fzcfc1u9dlfk
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PublicDate: 2008-09-03
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Candidate: CVE-2008-3895
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References:
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 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3895
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Description:
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 LILO 22.6.1 and earlier stores pre-boot authentication passwords in the
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 BIOS Keyboard buffer and does not clear this buffer before and after use,
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 which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the
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 physical memory locations associated with this buffer.
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Ubuntu-Description:
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Notes:
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 jdstrand> requires root access to the machine which gives access to do
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  anything anyway (unless restricting root access via SELinux, which Ubuntu
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  does not)
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 mdeslaur> let's ignore this
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Bugs:
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Priority: negligible
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Discovered-by:
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Assigned-to:
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Patches_lilo:
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upstream_lilo: needs-triage
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dapper_lilo: ignored
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feisty_lilo: needed (reached end-of-life)
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gutsy_lilo: needed (reached end-of-life)
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hardy_lilo: ignored
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intrepid_lilo: ignored
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jaunty_lilo: ignored
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karmic_lilo: ignored
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devel_lilo: ignored