CVE-2009-3101 Information

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.

Reference

http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6839026 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-266469-1