CVE-2009-3100 Denial of service in n/a
Local users can cause a system hang by locking the screen and triggering an Accessibility pop-up in xscreensaver on Solaris systems.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2009-3100?
CVE-2009-3100 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Opensolaris, published on 8 Sep 2009. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official 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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-3100?
It affects 3 products.
Products include Sun Opensolaris, Sun Solaris, X.org X11.
How do I fix CVE-2009-3100?
No fix has been published for CVE-2009-3100 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2009-3100 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-3100 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Sun Opensolaris
Sources
Also known as GHSA-968q-p5w6-ghj4.