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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3894

Original release date:09/03/2008

Last revised:01/29/2009

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:2.1 (LOW) (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 2.9

Exploitability Subscore: 3.9

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Locally exploitable

Access Complexity: Low

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Lenovo (11/05/2008)

Lenovo has released a BIOS update to address this issue. http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-64580

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External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20080825 [IVIZ-08-005] IBM Lenovo BIOS Plain Text Password Disclosure

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/495808/100/0/threaded

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.ivizsecurity.com/research/preboot/preboot_whitepaper.pdf

Hyperlink:http://www.ivizsecurity.com/research/preboot/preboot_whitepaper.pdf

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.ivizsecurity.com/preboot-patch.html

Hyperlink:http://www.ivizsecurity.com/preboot-patch.html

External Source: SREASON

Name: 4207

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4207