CVE-2003-0518

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jul 10, 2003
Updated: Aug 8, 2024
Reserved: Jul 7, 2003

Description

The screen saver in MacOS X allows users with physical access to cause the screen saver to crash and gain access to the underlying session via a large number of characters in the password field, possibly triggering a buffer overflow.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

20030715 FIXED: MacOSX - crash screensaver locked with password and get thedesktop backmailing-list
20030704 MacOSX - crash screensaver locked with password and get the desktop backmailing-list
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120232

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