CVE-2009-3100

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-09-08 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

xscreensaver (aka Gnome-XScreenSaver) in Sun Solaris 9 and 10, OpenSolaris snv_109 through snv_122, and X11 6.4.1 on Solaris 8 does not properly handle Accessibility support, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) by locking the screen and then attempting to launch an Accessibility pop-up window, related to a regression in certain Solaris and OpenSolaris patches.

Affected products

Sun Opensolaris: snv_109, snv_110, snv_111, snv_112, snv_113, snv_114 (+8)
Sun Solaris: 9, 10, 8
X.Org X11: 6.4.1

References

http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6839026
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-266469-1
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6839026
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-266469-1

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