CVE-2008-3895
Description
From CVE.org
LILO 22.6.1 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.
Statement
Red Hat does not consider this to be a security issue. Since these operations can only be executed by root, no trust boundary is crossed as a result of this behaviour.
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