Vulnerability in Mcafee Safeboot Device Encryption
CVE-2008-7020
McAfee SafeBoot Device Encryption 4 build 4750 and earlier 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.
Vulnerability class: POODLE (CVE-2014-3566)
EPSS: 0.002 (10.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Mcafee Safeboot_device_encryption — versions 4
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC)