CVE-2008-3617

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.

Date published : 2008-09-16

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31189