CVE-2009-3101 Denial of service in n/a
Local users can cause a denial of service by locking the screen, leading to CPU consumption and console hangs in Solaris.
- 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-2009-3101?
CVE-2009-3101 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 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.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-3101?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Sun Opensolaris.
How do I fix CVE-2009-3101?
No fix has been published for CVE-2009-3101 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-2009-3101 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-3101 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Sun Opensolaris
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vj7x-rvh3-72c5.