CVE-2009-3101

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-09-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

xscreensaver (aka Gnome-XScreenSaver) in Sun Solaris 10, and OpenSolaris snv_109 through snv_122, does not properly handle Trusted Extensions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and console hang) by locking the screen, 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 (+17)

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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