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vendor:
Solaris
by:
7.5
CVSS
HIGH
Denial of Service (DoS)
CWE
Product Name: Solaris
Affected Version From: Solaris 7
Affected Version To: Solaris 7
Patch Exists: NO
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Solaris 7 procfs Crash Vulnerability

A nonprivileged user can crash any 32 or 64-bit non-Intel machine running Solaris 7 by executing the 'more /proc/self/psinfo' command. This vulnerability is caused by a bug in the Solaris 7 procfs.

Mitigation:

No known mitigation or remediation for this vulnerability.
Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

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]