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Secunia Advisory SA9184

Mac OS X Screensaver Password Bypass Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA9184
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Release Date 2003-07-05
Last Update 2003-07-15
   
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Security Bypass
Where Local system
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Operating System
Apple Macintosh OS X
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2003-0518 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Mac OS X, which can be exploited by a malicious person with physical access to a system to bypass the password protected screensaver.

It is possible to crash the screensaver and gain full access to the desktop by supplying an overly long string (between 1280 and 1380 characters) in the password field.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 10.2.6. However, prior versions may also be affected.

Reportedly, this vulnerability affects all Cocoa applications.


Solution
Apply security patch:
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Delfim Machado

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

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

Deep Links
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