Screen Saver Crash Vulnerability in MacOS X Allows Unauthorized Access

CVE-2003-0518 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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