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CVE-1999-1585

HIGH CVSS: 7.2 Published: 1999-12-31 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Sun Sunos

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References