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CVE Reference: CVE-2003-0518
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CVE-2003-0518

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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

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

BUGTRAQ
  http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-07/0034.html
  http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-07/0187.html


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