Security Advisory

CVE-2008-3617

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-09-16 23:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 09:45:18
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

Remote Management and Screen Sharing in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.5.4, when used to set a password for a VNC viewer, displays additional input characters beyond the maximum password length, which might make it easier for attackers to guess passwords that the user believed were longer.