Thursday, August 28, 2008

Intel BIOS Plain Text Password Disclosure


Synopsis

Like most BIOSes, Intel's firmware PE94510M.86A.0050.2007.0710.1559 (07/10/2007) can be used to ask a password to users at boot time to implement a pre-boot authentication.

The password checking routine of this firmware fails to sanitize the BIOS keyboard buffer after reading user input, resulting in plain text password leakage to local users.

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