debian · CVE-2009-3100

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Priority: unimportant Published: Updated: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:58:15 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2009-3100 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (xscreensaver), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

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.

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