CVE-2009-3100
N/A
Published: September 8, 2009 at 06:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:10 PM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsSolarisOpensolarisX11
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
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
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (2)
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6839026Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-266469-1Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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