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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-3610
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CVE-2008-3610

Description:
Race condition in Login Window in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.5.4, when a blank-password account is enabled, allows attackers to bypass password authentication and login to any account via multiple attempts to login to the blank-password account, followed by selection of an arbitrary account from the user list.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/45170

ST
  1020878

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA31882

CERT
  http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-260A.html

BID
  31189

APPLE
  http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html


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