CVE-2003-0518

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Apple Mac OS X

First reported 21 years ago

2003-08-18 04:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-10 19:19:00

Affected Software

Apple Mac OS X 10.2

10.2

Apple Mac OS X 10.2.1

10.2.1

Apple Mac OS X 10.2.2

10.2.2

Apple Mac OS X 10.2.3

10.2.3

Apple Mac OS X 10.2.4

10.2.4

Apple Mac OS X 10.2.5

10.2.5

Apple Mac OS X 10.2.6

10.2.6

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2

10.2

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.1

10.2.1

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.2

10.2.2

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.3

10.2.3

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.4

10.2.4

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.5

10.2.5

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.6

10.2.6

References

20030704 MacOSX - crash screensaver locked with password and get the desktop back

Vendor Advisory

20030715 FIXED: MacOSX - crash screensaver locked with password and get thedesktop back

Patch

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120232

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