CVE-2009-3100: Sun Opensolaris

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Sun Opensolaris: version snv_109 only; version snv_110 only; version snv_111 only; version snv_112 only; version snv_113 only; version snv_114 only; …
• Sun Solaris: version 9 only; version 10 only; version 8 only
• X.org x11: version 6.4.1 only

Published 2009-09-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.