CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0518

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2003-08-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-08-18
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

Affected configurations

• apple mac os x 10.2 • apple mac os x 10.2.1 • apple mac os x 10.2.2 • apple mac os x 10.2.3 • apple mac os x 10.2.4 • apple mac os x 10.2.5 • apple mac os x 10.2.6 • apple mac os x server 10.2 • apple mac os x server 10.2.1 • apple mac os x server 10.2.2 • apple mac os x server 10.2.3 • apple mac os x server 10.2.4 • apple mac os x server 10.2.5 • apple mac os x server 10.2.6

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