Toshiba Acpi Flash Bios 1.6 denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Toshiba Acpi Flash Bios 1.6. This issue affects some unknown processing. Executing a manipulation can lead to denial of service. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2005-0963. There is no exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Toshiba Acpi Flash Bios 1.6 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was shared 05/02/2005 (Website). The advisory is available at marc.theaimsgroup.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2005-0963 since 04/03/2005. The exploitation appears to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (19895). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Timelineinfo

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05/02/2005 +29 days 🔍
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03/10/2015 +3599 days 🔍
07/22/2017 +865 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: marc.theaimsgroup.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2005-0963 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-0963
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-24754
X-Force: 19895

Entryinfo

Created: 03/10/2015 23:05
Updated: 07/22/2017 10:26
Changes: 03/10/2015 23:05 (40), 07/22/2017 10:26 (6)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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