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Local Denial-of-Service Vulnerability in Sun Solaris

The vulnerability allows local users to cause denial-of-service conditions in certain filesystem commands. By executing a specific Perl command, an attacker can create a large number of directories, causing the system to become unresponsive and leading to a denial-of-service.

Mitigation:

Apply the necessary patch or update provided by the vendor.
Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

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 }'