CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-3617
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-09-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-255
Description
Remote Management and Screen Sharing in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.5.4, when used to set a password for a VNC viewer, displays additional input characters beyond the maximum password length, which might make it easier for attackers to guess passwords that the user believed were longer.
Affected configurations
• apple mac os x 10.5
• apple mac os x 10.5.1
• apple mac os x 10.5.2
• apple mac os x 10.5.3
• apple mac os x 10.5.4
• apple mac os x server 10.5
• apple mac os x server 10.5.1
• apple mac os x server 10.5.2
• apple mac os x server 10.5.3
• apple mac os x server 10.5.4
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html Patch
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020882 securitytracker.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31189 Patch
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-260A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2584 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45174 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html Patch
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020882 securitytracker.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31189 Patch
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-260A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2584 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45174 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com