CVE-2003-0518
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.
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 32% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- apple:mac_os_x
- apple:mac_os_x_server
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-07/0034.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-07/0187.html
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120232
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-07/0034.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-07/0187.html