CVE-2003-0518

medium

Description

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

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

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-07/0187.html

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-07/0034.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2003-08-18

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H