CVE-1999-0084

HIGH CVSS: 8.4 Published: 1990-05-01 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Certain NFS servers allow users to use mknod to gain privileges by creating a writable kmem device and setting the UID to 0.

Affected Platforms

Sun Nfs

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other, CWE-269

References