CVE-2003-0518 Information

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.

Reference

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