| Name | CVE-2008-3896 |
| Description | Grub Legacy 0.97 and earlier stores pre-boot authentication passwords in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and does not clear this buffer before and after use, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the physical memory locations associated with this buffer. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| grub (PTS) | buster | 0.97-75 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 0.97-77 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 0.97-80 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 0.97-81 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| grub | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | |
Notes
you need to be root on linux to do this, root can easily edit menu.lst anyway