Vulnerability in Sun Opensolaris
CVE-2009-3101
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.
EPSS: 0.004 (33.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Sun Opensolaris — versions snv_109, snv_110, snv_111
- Sun Solaris — versions 9, 10
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUNALERT, Vendor Advisory)