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Unscored CVE-1999-1585 EUVD-1999-1566GHSA-fp24-hwrr-3jqm

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…

Published Aug 30, 2005 · Updated Sep 17, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

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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