CVE-2005-4175 Information

Description

Insyde BIOS V190 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.

Reference

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