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FKIE_CVE-2003-0518

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2003-08-18 04:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:02

Severity

Summary

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.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-07/0034.html	Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-07/0187.html	Patch
cve@mitre.org	http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120232
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-07/0034.html	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-07/0187.html	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120232

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
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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CVE-2003-0518 (GCVE-0-2003-0518)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2003-07-10 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 01:58

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/20…	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/20…	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120232	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Date Public

2003-07-04 00:00

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Sightings

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CVE-2003-0518 (GCVE-0-2003-0518)

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