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Intel D845 Motherboard BIOS Series Arbitrary Boot Media Vulnerability

The D845 series motherboards are a product of Intel. These motherboards are designed to support the Pentium 4 processor.

When a system using a D845 series motherboard is booted, it is possible to halt the boot to change the boot media, even if a BIOS password is set. By pressing the F8 key, the D845 BIOS will give a user at the console a menu. From this menu, a user may specify a different media than the default from which the system is to be booted. Any password set on the BIOS will be circumvented by this procedure.