CVE-ID

CVE-1999-1585

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Description
The (1) rcS and (2) mountall programs in Sun Solaris 2.x, possibly before 2.4, start a privileged shell on the system console if fsck fails while the system is booting, which allows attackers with physical access to gain root privileges.
References
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  • SUN:00124
  • URL:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-22-00124-1 (Obsolete source)
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20050830 Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20050830)
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Comments (Legacy)
Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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