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CVE-1999-1585

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CVE-1999-1585

Published: Aug 30, 2005

Modified: Sep 17, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

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affected
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References

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vendor-advisory
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