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>       With regards to the above vulnerability, I tested 3 Machines (1: G4 
> 450 & 2: Dual G4 1.2G) They all had the mentioned screen saver 
> vulnerability.
>       However, a work-around solution is if you use "Key-chain access" and 
> lock screen instead of using the "hot-spot" method. The end effects are 
> the same using both but the buffer overflow is avoided using the former 
> method.

Using your method of locking the screen, my machine (G4 1GHz, 10.2.6) is still 
vulnerable. I was able to get in in under 20 seconds using the emacs shortcuts, 
same as before.

Regards,
petard

- -- 
"I say we institute [...] roving squadrons of Darren Reed clones to
bore yuppie scum like this to death with the inherent merits of ipf
over pf."
        -- Anonymous Coward, OpenBSD Journal (http://deadly.org/)
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