Vulnerability CVE-2005-0963


Published: 2005-05-02   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
An error in the Toshiba ACPI BIOS 1.6 causes the BIOS to only examine the first slot in the Master Boot Record (MBR) table for an active partition, which prevents the system from booting even though the MBR is not malformed. NOTE: it has been debated as to whether or not this issue poses a security vulnerability, since administrative privileges would be required, and other DoS attacks are possible with such privileges.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Toshiba -> Acpi flash bios 

 References:
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/19895
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=111229803502643&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=111229708208629&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=111214319914810&w=2

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