CVE-2008-3610 Information

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.

Reference

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html http://secunia.com/advisories/31882 http://securitytracker.com/id?1020878 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31189 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-260A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2584 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45170